Pinsa was on the menu when we visited Da Tino e Marco, a small family-run restaurant beside a hotel in Laigueglia, a seaside resort in Liguria. I fell in love with it at first bite. It might have been the setting…

But, admittedly, I’m one of those inveterate pizza lovers who could eat pizza for lunch or dinner several times a week—if my waistline would allow. But before that lunch, I had never heard of or tasted pinsa, which I later learned is the ancestral granddaddy of pizza.