Tasty discoveries

Pizza Margherita was created in 1889 by Rafael Eposito in honour of Italian queen Margherita von Savoyen, wife of Umberto I. He decided to decorate the pizza with national colours using white mozzarella cheese, red tomatoes and green basil.
Ice cream – it is quite probable that Chinese governors used to eat delicacies made from the ice with fruits, honey and wine 3000 years ago. Probably Marco Polo brought the recipe to Europe, first to Italy. With the development of cooling machines, it became one of the most popular desserts in the world.
Sandwich – the name comes from lord Sandwich, who loved playing cards. It is said that one day in 1762 he played for 20 hours, not getting up from the table. Because he was hungry, he ordered two slices of bread and inserted a piece of roast beef between them. It was very convenient, because neither hands nor the cards got dirty.
The story of tomatoes  seems also surprising. Until the end of the eighteenth century, doctors warned against eating tomatoes, suspecting them to cause appendicitis and even stomach cancer. People treated tomatoe as an ornamental plant. It is told that colonel Johnson from Salem, New Jersey, USA, decided to demonstrate that tomatoes are non-poisonous and quite safe for consumption. To do this, in 1820 he stood in front of the city courthouse and ate up a full basket of potatoes. People thought that he was trying to commit a public suicide. However, colonel Johnson didn’t suffer any ill effects and his act resulted in a growing fame of tomatoes. Luckily, because otherwise we wouldn’t have ketchup or gazpacho today.

Karolina Pluta
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Słownik/Dictionary:
Basil – bazylia
Recipe – przepis
Dessert – deser
Roast beef – pieczona wołowina
Appendicitis – zapalenie wyrostka robaczkowego
Ornament – ozdoba
Non-poisonous – nietrujący
Fame-popularność