Marinara
Italian · pronounced mah-ree-NAH-rah
In Naples, a pizza of tomato, garlic, oregano and olive oil, with no cheese — the older of the two pizzas named in the AVPN standard. The name refers to sailors, or to the keeping qualities that suited them, not to seafood: a Neapolitan marinara contains none.
Literal meaning
Of the sea, or sailor's
Region
Naples
Also known as
pizza marinara
Common misuse
Expecting seafood, or reading 'marinara' as the American term for a generic tomato-basil pasta sauce. In a Neapolitan pizzeria it means one specific cheeseless pizza.
Related
Evidence
Well established- International Regulation for True Neapolitan Pizza (Disciplinare Internazionale) — Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana (AVPN)
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 97/2010 registering 'Pizza Napoletana' as a Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) — European Commission