So for all the readers who wanted to know how to make focaccia at home, here is Ms. Sugarman's superb and quite simple recipe.

On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into a 12-inch circle if making pizza or a 10-inch circle if making focaccia.

The contemporary Italian restaurant, which opened last month, makes its own pasta, focaccia and desserts.

It includes recipes for things like Jewish rye bread and bagels, but there are also instructions for making focaccia, plain white bread, croissants and broa, the Portuguese corn bread.

Where did tiramisu come from and what suddenly made focaccia such a hit?

She and three helpers go through 30 pounds of flour a day, making pasta, focaccia and panzerotti.

There is no trick to making focaccia from scratch.

Last week, I even made focaccia.

Pizza dough can also be used to make focaccia, a bread flavored with olive oil and, often, fresh rosemary leaves, baked and served hot from the oven.

Free cooking lessons, not to rich housewives who want to learn the latest technique for making focaccia, but something for women who'd like to learn inexpensive, healthful ways to feed their families.