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Pizza, or one of its forms, has been a basic part of the Mediterranean diet since the Stone Age. This earliest form of pizza was crude bread that was baked beneath the stones of the fire. After cooking, it was seasoned with a variety of different toppings and was believed to have been used instead of plates and utensils to mop up broth or gravies. Some say that the idea of using bread as a plate came from the Greeks who ate flat round bread baked with an assortment of toppings. It was eaten by the working man and his family because it was a convenient food. In the sixth century BC, at the height of the Persian Empire, it is said that the soldiers of Darius the Great, accustomed to lengthy marches, baked a kind of bread flat upon their shields and then covered it with cheese and dates.
Although you'd find many types of pitta or pizzas around the Mediterranean, it is in Naples that pizza in the form we know it today first emerged, after the tomato appeared on the table in the 1700s.
From 'Pizza: A Brief History, a Few Interesting Facts and Jokes' (Fun Guerilla, 2015), www.funguerilla.com
How does the method of cooking pizza in the Stone Age compare with the method used by the Persian Empire?
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- Scan the text for the Stone Age way of cooking.
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The bread was baked underneath the stones of the fire and covered with different toppings.
- Scan the text for the Persian way of cooking.
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The bread was baked on soldiers' shields and covered with cheese and dates.
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Stone Age people cooked pizzas underneath stones of the fire before covering with toppings, whereas Persian soldiers cooked their pizzas on their shields and covered them with cheese and dates.
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