Pizza is way more than just pizza to Anthony Giordano, owner of Anna’s Vesuviano mobile pizza trailer. It’s an edible symbol of cultures colliding to create something incredibly delicious. And even though his family comes from Naples, Italy, he says we shouldn’t just credit the Italians for inventing pizza.

There’s one specialty pizza on his menu that is topped with Middle Eastern za’atar — a spice blend of dried herbs that often includes oregano, thyme and marjoram with sumac and toasted sesame seeds — and this pie is symbolic of what pizza means to him. “Pizza is Arabic,” he says with conviction. And it’s something to think about.