Chickpea Pancake Pizza Will Transport You to Southeastern France

Baking the flatbread in a wood-fired oven recreates the French market experience.
Chickpea Pancake Pizza Will Transport You to Southeastern France
Like any good pizza, the amount of topping should match the crust. JeanMarie Brownson/TCA
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The ability to imagine a pizza at any moment is one of the skills of being a lifelong Chicagoan. Any bread-like offering, from yeasted dough to flatbread to crackers, can become a pizza.

Case in point: Walking through the Wednesday market in Sanary-sur-Mer, a coastal resort town on the Mediterranean between Bandol and Toulon in southeastern France, we thought about pizza. Sure, fresh tomatoes and a variety of cheeses filled market stalls. But the wedges of warm cade, bought from a vendor with a blazing wood-fired oven, made us think of pizza.

JeanMarie Brownson
JeanMarie Brownson
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JeanMarie Brownson is a James Beard Award-winning author and the recipient of the IACP Cookbook Award for her latest cookbook, “Dinner at Home.” JeanMarie, a chef and authority on home cooking, Mexican cooking and specialty food, is one of the founding partners of Frontera Foods. She co-authored three cookbooks with chef Rick Bayless, including “Mexico: One Plate at a Time.” JeanMarie has enjoyed developing recipes and writing about food, travel and dining for more than four decades. ©2022 JeanMarie Brownson. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.