DIDACTIC UNIT 2. 5TH COURSE. FOOD. ORIGIN OF CHIPS, ICE CREAM AND PIZZA

                                                       ORIGIN OF CHIPS

In 1853 George Crum was a cook in a restaurant in Saratoga Springs in New York. One day, a costumer said he didn´t like George´s French fries. He said they were too thick!. So George played a joke on him. He made some French fries that were very thin, like paper. The costumer loved them!

Soon all of George´s customers wanted thin French fries. George called them Saratoga chips. In 1860 George opened a new restaurant and his thin chips became famous all over the USA. Today potato chips are one of the most popular snacks in the world. People eat millions of them every day.

In the UK, French fries are called chips, and potato chips are called crisps!

                                     ORIGIN OF PIZZA

The Greeks made the first pizza more than 2.000 years ago. It was a round, flat bread with olive oil, spices and potatoes.

Later the Italians made the flat bread and called it “pizza”. In 1889, Queen Margherita ate the pizza. She loved it. Her cook made her a special pizza with tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and basil to represent the colours of the Italian flag.

This was the first Margherita pizza. Nowadays, people all over the world eat thousands of pizzas every day.

Some people add meat, seafood or vegetables.

                                     ORIGIN OF ICE CREAM

The origins of ice cream started in Italy about 2.000 years ago. The Emperor Nero liked to eat snow mixed with fruit. Later, an Italian explorer called Marco Polo – about 1,500 years ago - discovered that the Chinese ate ice mixed with milk. When he went back to Italy, he asked his cook to make this ice cream. Soon a lot of people ate ice cream all over Europe. They loved it! The soft ice cream that we eat today was probably invented in Europe about 400 years ago.

Fruit ices were popular in Europe. Then people started to add cream. They put the cream in a metal bowl with sugar. Then they froze it in a bucket of ice. This was hard work because they had to keep mixing the cream by hand. An American woman named Nancy Johnson invented an ice cream machine- the Artificial Freezer – in 1843. Seven years later the first ice cream factory opened in Baltimore in the USA.

Nowadays, there are a lot of different flavours of ice cream.

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