What do you like on your pizza?Cheese?Tomatoes?
Pepperoni?People may disagree on their favorite ingredients,
but many people agree that pizza is a favorite food.
Where and when did people start making pizza?To find out,we have to
travel back in time.People were baking bread dough on hot
rocks in the Stone Age.
Stone Age people gathered ancient types of wheat and other grains.
They mixed the grains into a batter.
Then they poured the batter onto rocks in their campfires.
What they got was a flat bread-the first pizza crust.In time,prehistoric
bakers started using the flat bread as a plate.They put other
food,herbs,and spices on the bread.Then they ate it.
Over the centuries,tastes changed.In the 1500s,European explorers tried to find a better way to sail to Americas.Native American
people in Peru,Central America,and Mexico enjoyed eating
tomatoes,but in Europe,people thought tomatoes were poisonous!With time,
Europeans and other people discovered that tomatoes were delicious and safe to eat.
Cooks in Naples,an Italian city,began putting tomatoes onto baking dough.
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