영어2 비상 홍민표 2과 변형문제 Tasty History

Food is one of the basic necessities of ____.

Finding, growing, preserving, storing, trading, and eating it have driven the course of ____ history.

The need to eat and the desire to eat something pleasant have encouraged meetings of ____ and exchanges of ideas.

Looking into the tasty history of food will allow us to better understand how food ____ shaped the world and our history.

More than ____ years ago, humans transitioned from chasing their food around to growing it where they could settle.

It is difficult to say which particular plant was the very first to be farmed, but there are a few crops that archaeologists ____ sparked the Agricultural Revolution.

In a region near the Middle East, called the “Fertile Crescent,” the earliest known wheat was ____ and grown in about 8500 BCE.

It spread ____ to Greece and to Germany over a period of about 2,000 years.

China and Southeast Asia ____ to have been the center of the cultivation of rice about 7000 BCE.

Moreover, ____ was first grown in Central America around 8000 BCE.

Modern people would probably not even ____ the earliest strains of rice and corn, to say nothing of enjoying their taste.

____, they are nonetheless the source of our modern cuisine.

Farming allowed people to settle down instead of moving around all the ____.

This new sedentary lifestyle allowed humans to develop settlements with higher populations, division of labor, trade, ____ structures, writing, and much more.

In times of abundance, settling and farming yielded a surplus of food, and thus certain societies were able to expand their horizons and meet other groups of ____.

This resulted in ____ and the exchange of ideas, languages, and traditions.

Such meetings also resulted in war, the ____ of influence, and cultural domination.

At around 1200 CE, Genghis Khan united the ____ small tribes of Northeast Asia under the Mongol Empire.

At its peak, it stretched from ____ to east from Central Europe to the East Sea, north into Siberia, and south into India.

Genghis Khan needed a massive, mobile army in order to ____ his empire, and this army needed to be fed enormous amounts of food.

Khan and his ____ needed to develop a system to cure and dry meat so that calorie-dense, healthy food could be preserved and easily transported over long distances.

The result was meat jerky similar to that which is ____ today at a convenience store near you!

____ army cut long, thin strips of donkey and cow meat, and salted them in small bowls, after which the strips were air-dried and possibly roasted over a fire.

The result was surprisingly delicious and ____ enough nutrition to sustain an entire army.

The ancient methods of preserving food such as salting, drying, and smoking have not changed for ____ of years.

One additional method was introduced in the early 19th century and has been a game-changer: ____.

Canning dates back to the Napoleonic Wars when the French government offered a ____ reward to anyone who could find a way to effectively preserve food.

This would allow an army to be not ____ healthier but also better able to fight in tougher conditions.

Different types of the canned foods we enjoy ____ were originally developed to support the needs of the military.

Spices made food taste good, leading to an era of exploration and ____.

With demand for spices growing in the early 15th century Europe, many explorers ____ long sea voyages in search of spices, which lasted for about 200 years.

Columbus from Italy ended up going west to the Americas; Da Gama from Portugal discovered the first sea route to India; and Magellan ____ Portugal went east and was the first to sail around the world.

On land, the Silk Road carried spices and many other ____ goods between Asia and the Middle East.

A ____ for ways to make food taste better sparked a global trade network which many historians agree eventually resulted in intellectual and cultural exchange, diplomacy, conflict, and wealth.

For example, pepper is a very common spice all ____ the world today; however, an ancient Roman cook could not just go to the grocery store to get some.

The Romans had a flourishing spice trade with ____, but acquiring pepper was difficult and costly, leading to myths about how dangerous it was to harvest.

In fact, some stories said that pepper trees in India were protected by ____ snakes.

They had to be scared away by ____ the trees, which gave the peppercorn its black color.

These kinds of fantastic stories maintained the charm of the spice, and they also ____ pepper investors to strengthen their hold on the prized commodity.

Technological ____, human curiosity, and the determination to explore moved people all over the world.

This movement of people ____ meant that more and more people from different backgrounds would come together.

The tasty history of ____ also includes what happens when cuisine and culture intertwine.

The story of pizza reveals how ____ evolves over time because of the creativity of people.

Tomatoes were ____ to Europe from the Americas in the 16th century, but many Europeans believed them to be poisonous.

Some poor people in Naples, Italy, in the late ____ century, maybe out of curiosity or necessity, began to use tomatoes as a bread topping.

It tasted good, so tourists were attracted to the area to ____ this specialty.

This was ____ how pizza was born.

Immigration in the 19th century brought pizza to the United States and Canada, increasing its popularity and ____ the creation of regional recipes like Chicago deep dish or New York pizza.

Food gives strength, helps people fight, and evolves ____ time.

It is also an intriguing way to learn about ____.

With the world becoming a smaller place and more and more varieties of ____ being invented, it's no wonder that many people take vacations where the focus is on their stomachs.

When they try a local dish for the first time, they feel an intimate connection with the ____ history of that particular place.

Food: what a wonderful, tasty way to learn about people and the ____ of the world.