Pizza originated in ancient times when people in the Stone Age cooked grains on hot rocks to make dough. Over time, people began topping this dough with various foods, developing one of the world's first pizzas. In the 16th century, Europeans brought tomatoes back from the Americas and they became a standard pizza ingredient. In the early 19th century in Naples, Italy, cooks started putting tomatoes on dough and baking it, popularizing pizza among the poor. In 1830, the world's first pizza restaurant opened in Naples. Today, around five billion pizzas are served worldwide every year.
Pizza originated in ancient times when people in the Stone Age cooked grains on hot rocks to make dough. Over time, people began topping this dough with various foods, developing one of the world's first pizzas. In the 16th century, Europeans brought tomatoes back from the Americas and they became a standard pizza ingredient. In the early 19th century in Naples, Italy, cooks started putting tomatoes on dough and baking it, popularizing pizza among the poor. In 1830, the world's first pizza restaurant opened in Naples. Today, around five billion pizzas are served worldwide every year.
Pizza originated in ancient times when people in the Stone Age cooked grains on hot rocks to make dough. Over time, people began topping this dough with various foods, developing one of the world's first pizzas. In the 16th century, Europeans brought tomatoes back from the Americas and they became a standard pizza ingredient. In the early 19th century in Naples, Italy, cooks started putting tomatoes on dough and baking it, popularizing pizza among the poor. In 1830, the world's first pizza restaurant opened in Naples. Today, around five billion pizzas are served worldwide every year.
Pizza originated in ancient times when people in the Stone Age cooked grains on hot rocks to make dough. Over time, people began topping this dough with various foods, developing one of the world's first pizzas. In the 16th century, Europeans brought tomatoes back from the Americas and they became a standard pizza ingredient. In the early 19th century in Naples, Italy, cooks started putting tomatoes on dough and baking it, popularizing pizza among the poor. In 1830, the world's first pizza restaurant opened in Naples. Today, around five billion pizzas are served worldwide every year.
1 Pizza is certainly one of the world’s favorite foods.
But where does pizza come from? And who made the first one? In fact, people have been making pizza for a very long 5 time. People in the Stone Age1 cooked grains2 on hot rocks to make dough—the basic ingredient of pizza. Over time, people used the dough as a plate, covering it with various other foods, herbs, and spices. They had About five billion pizzas are served around the world every year. developed the world’s first pizza. 10 In the early 16th century, European explorers brought back the first tomatoes from the Americas. Tomatoes are a standard ingredient in many pizzas today. At first, however, most Europeans thought they were poisonous3 (in fact, only the leaves and roots4 are). For about 200 15 years, few people ate them. Slowly, people learned that tomatoes were safe to eat, as well as tasty. In the early 19th century, cooks in Naples, Italy, started the tradition of putting tomatoes on baking he Stone Age is a very early period of T dough. The flat bread soon became popular with poor 1
human history, where people used tools and
20 people all over Naples. In 1830, cooks in Naples took weapons made of stone, not metal. 2 Grains are the small, hard seeds of plants another big step in pizza history—they opened the such as wheat or corn. world’s first pizza restaurant. If something is poisonous, it will harm or kill 3
you if you swallow it.
4 The roots of a plant are the parts of it that Today, up to five billion pizzas are served every year grow under the ground. around the world. In the U.S. alone, about 350 slices5 5 A slice of something is a small or thin piece that has been cut from a larger piece. 25 are eaten every second! People may not know it, but every piece is a slice of history. 2A Slice of History 21