Unit 2 Food Firsts Please refer to page 12

Where do your favorite food come from? The truth may surprise you. Did you know curry isn’t Indian? Did you know Americans weren’t the first to eat hamburgers? Or did you know pizza wasn’t created in Italy?

First, let’s talk about curry. Many people think the English found out about curry from people in India in the 1600s. But in reality, wealthy English people were cooking with curry spices hundreds of years before British ships traveled to India.

In fact, the word “curry” can be found in the English language as far back as Cooks of wealthy English families created curry dishes, and later these dishes caught on in other parts of England.