Admittedly, it’s nothing like the golden, pillowy, dimpled focaccia you associate with the name. This delicacy is something entirely different, unleavened, hardly even focaccia at all in the traditional sense of the word. Yet it is the most decadent version of them all. If you’ve never been to Liguria, specifically to the area around Recco, you’ve most likely never tasted the stuff, or anything remotely close to it.

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Focaccia di Recco col Formaggio. Two flakey, golden, impossibly thin layers of dough encase an oozing, tangy, melted cheese filling that inevitably dribbles down the chin. It’s impossible to stop after just one slice. In 1997, food writer Fred Plotkin called it “the most addictive food on the planet.”