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If you're a vegan, especially a new vegan, or if you have to cook for a vegan, you may wonder about how to make a good vegan pizza.

Making a vegetarian pizza is simple enough since vegetarians eat cheese. You can therefore make a cheese pizza or just load up a plain cheese pizza with all sorts of veggies.

The challenge of a vegan pizza is the fact that vegans do not eat cheese. There are vegan cheeses for sale, of course, but before you even go down that road you should consider something else.

The original pizza, the one upon which all other pizzas are based, originated in Naples in Southern Italy and is known as the Marinara pizza. That original, first pizza was actually made without cheese.

That sounds very weird to most of us who are used to equating pizza with stringy dripping cheese. But in Italy and Southern Europe in general, pizza without cheese is very common.

In the Mediterranean region, which encompasses North Africa and the Near East of Asia as well as Southern Europe, phyllo dough is sometimes used as a pizza base. And a cheeseless pizza on phyllo dough is absolutely amazing.