How much do you know about the history of some of your favorite foods?
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Do you know when people in England started cooking curry dishes?
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Do you know in which country pizzas or hamburgers were first made?
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The facts might surprise you.
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Many people think the English found out about curry from people in India in the 1600s.
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In reality, wealthy English people were eating dishes made with curry spices...
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...hundreds of years before British ships traveled to India.
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Cooks of wealthy English families during the time of King Richard the First were making curry dishes...
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...and in fact, the word "curry" can be found in an English language cookbook as far back as 1377.
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As for pizza, this dish was probably first made in Persia, what is now Iran.
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The Persians were eating round, flat bread with cheese in the 500s...
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...that was nearly 1,000 years before pizza caught on in Naples, Italy!
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Finally, let's look at the truth behind hamburgers.
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Many people think hamburgers are an American food,...
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...however, according to some stories, hamburgers came from Hamburg, Germany.
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A German named Otto Kuasw created the first hamburger in 1891.
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Four years later, German sailors introduced hamburgers to Americans.
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Where foods come from isn't nearly as important as how they taste,...
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...as long as they are delicious!
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So, go get some of your favorite food and dig in.
