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  2. List of food origins - Wikipedia

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    Helmeted guinea fowl in tall grass. Many foods were originally domesticated in West Africa, including grains like African rice, Pearl Millet, Sorghum, and Fonio; tree crops like Kola nut, used in Coca-Cola, and Oil Palm; and other globally important plant foods such as Watermelon, Tamarind, Okra, Black-eye peas, and Yams. [2]

  3. History of pizza - Wikipedia

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    In December 2009, the pizza napoletana was granted Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status by the European Union. [36] In 2012, the world's largest pizza was made in Los Angeles. It measured 1261.65 square meters in area. [37] In 2016, robotics company BeeHex, widely covered in the media, was building robots that 3D-printed pizza. [38]

  4. Baklava - Wikipedia

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    Though the suffix -vā might suggest a Persian origin, [12] [13] the baqla-part does not appear to be Persian and remains of unknown origin. [14] The linguist Tuncer Gülensoy states that the origin of baklava is bakl-ı (feed) in proto-Turkish and suffixes -la-ğı are added. The word changes as bakılağı > bakılavı > baklava. [15]

  5. Goulash - Wikipedia

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    The name originates from the Hungarian gulyás [ˈɡujaːʃ] ⓘ.The word gulya means 'herd of cattle' in Hungarian, and gulyás means 'cattle herder' or 'cowboy'. [7] [8]The word gulyás originally meant only 'cattle herder', but over time the dish became gulyáshús ('goulash meat') – that is to say, a meat dish which was prepared by herdsmen.

  6. History of the potato - Wikipedia

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    The crop slowly spread across Europe, such that, for example, by 1845 it occupied one-third of Irish arable land. Potatoes comprised about 10% of the caloric intake of Europeans. Along with several other foods that either originated in the Americas or were successfully grown or harvested there, potatoes sustained European populations. [47]

  7. History of the hamburger - Wikipedia

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    Hamburger profile showing the typical ingredients: bread, vegetables, and ground meat. Open hamburger with cheese and fries served in an American diner. Originally just a ground beef patty, as it is still interpreted in multiple languages, [a] the first hamburger likely originated in Hamburg (), hence its name; [1] [2] however, evidence also suggests that the United States may have later been ...

  8. History of sushi - Wikipedia

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    One common story of the origin of nigirizushi origins is of the chef Hanaya Yohei (1799–1858), who invented or perfected the technique in 1824 at his shop in Ryōgoku. [21] The nigirizushi of this period was somewhat different from modern nigirizushi. The sushi rice of this period was about three times the size of today's nigirizushi.

  9. Provenance - Wikipedia

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    Provenance (from French provenir 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. [1] The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art , [ citation needed ] but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields, including archaeology , paleontology , archival science ...