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People begin to grow food. Women plant seeds of wild grasses on cleared land. Their tools were digging sticks.
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Lake dwellers crush grain and cereals to make flour and then bread.
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Rice is grown in China
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Lemons, bananas, limes and oranges originated in Kashmir, India. Wine is made from grapes.
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The Sumerians, (in what is now Iraq) who invented the first writing, eat figs, wild cucumbers, honey and pancakes made with flour and onions. Potatoes are harvested in the Andes Mountains in South America
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The Egyptians sun-dry fish and chicken.
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Olive trees are grown on the island of Crete. (Greece)
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Watermelons are grown in Africa.
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Apricots are grown in China
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From 1500 B.C onwards. all the main food plants that we eat today are being grown by people somewhere in the world.
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The Chinese cut ice and use it to keep food fresh
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The Chinese cut ice and use it to keep food fresh
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Peanuts are grown and eaten in South America.
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Peaches are grown in China.
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The Egyptians and the Turks grow and eat cauliflowers.
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A Greek author writes a collection of recipes. It may be the first ever 'cookbook.'
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Alexander the Great brings bananas to Greece from India. He also brings back the citron (like a lemon) to Greece.
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The Japanese make salt from dried seaweed and use it to preserve foods. They also make soy sauce.
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The Britons are making cheese.
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Green beans and sweet corn are grown in the Americas. Popcorn was also used by the people of Central America.
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Coffee is discovered by an Arab goat herd in Ethiopia.
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Knights returning from the Crusades in the Middle East, bring sugar to Europe and England.
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In some parts of China there are restaurants where waiters serve food.
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Shops in Italy make and sell pasta. Men knead the dough with their bare feet.
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Christopher Columbus brings to Europe sweet potatoes, capsicums and pineapples from the Americas.
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Christopher Columbus brings to Europe sweet potatoes, capsicums and pineapples from the Americas.
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People in England make and eat meat pies.
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Tomatoes and avocados are taken to Spain from the Americas by explorers.
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Beans used for baked beans and bean stews come from North America to Italy and France. First Nation Americans are thought to have cooked the beans with fat and maple syrup.
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Potatoes from South America arrive in Europe. The French grow the plant but don't eat the potatoes.
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Strawberries were found growing in North America and seeds taken back to Europe by explorers.
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The first shop in London to sell chocolate opens. People drink the chocolate.
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Asparagus sold in England is called 'sparrowgrass'.
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The cantaloupe (rockmelon) was first grown in Italy, in the region of Cantelupe.
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The fourth Earl of Sandwich, John Montague, asked his servants to bring him some beef between two slices of bread. This was the first sandwich.
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A Frenchman, Nicholas Appert, was awarded a prize by the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte for inventing a way of keeping food fresh for some time inside glass jars
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The first chocolate bar is made by JS Fry and Sons.
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Tin cans were first used to store food. The inventor was Englishman, Peter Durand
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The first canned baked beans are made.
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The hamburger sandwich is invented. A 15- year-old American, Charles Nagreen, put fried beef between slices of bread and sold it, calling it a hamburger.
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The world's first corn flakes are made and sold by the Kellogg Brothers
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Coca Cola is bottled for the first time
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The word 'hot dog' was first used in America to describe a frankfurt served in a bread roll. Frankfurts originated in Germany and Switzerland.
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Tea bags are invented.
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The first McDonald's hamburger stand opens at a drive-in cinema in the United States.