社交英語口語視頻(中級) 56 Food Firsts

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　　How much do you know about the history of some of your favorite foods?

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　　Do you know when people in England started cooking curry dishes?

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　　Do you know in which country pizzas or hamburgers were first made?

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　　The facts might surprise you.

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　　Many people think the English found out about curry from people in India in the 1600s.

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　　In reality, wealthy English people were eating dishes made with curry spices...

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　　...hundreds of years before British ships traveled to India.

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　　Cooks of wealthy English families during the time of King Richard the First were making curry dishes...

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　　...and in fact, the word "curry" can be found in an English language cookbook as far back as 1377.

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　　As for pizza, this dish was probably first made in Persia, what is now Iran.

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　　The Persians were eating round, flat bread with cheese in the 500s...

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　　...that was nearly 1,000 years before pizza caught on in Naples, Italy!

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　　Finally, let's look at the truth behind hamburgers.

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　　Many people think hamburgers are an American food,...

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　　...however, according to some stories, hamburgers came from Hamburg, Germany.

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　　A German named Otto Kuasw created the first hamburger in 1891.

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　　Four years later, German sailors introduced hamburgers to Americans.

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　　Where foods come from isn't nearly as important as how they taste,...

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　　...as long as they are delicious!

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　　So, go get some of your favorite food and dig in.