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In standard pizzas, yeast produces bubbles during fermentation, which causes the dough to rise and develop an airy texture. Manuel Sulzer via Getty Images Ernesto Di Maio can’t eat standard pizza. The ...

What's the difference between regular yeast, quick-rising yeast and the new pizza dough yeast? When I make dough, I can't tell a difference between regular and quick-rising. Peter Reinhart, the bread ...

A materials scientist with a yeast allergy set out to make a yeast-free pizza dough that still rises like a classic Neapolitan pie. Now, in a new paper published March 22 in the journal Physics of ...

Ernesto Di Maio is severely allergic to the yeast in leavened foods. "I have to go somewhere and hide because I will be fully covered with bumps and bubbles on the whole body," he says. "It's really ...