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Basic Reading Assignment 3 - Afnan Boma

Pizza originated in Italy and was originally just bread topped with olive oil, cheese, and herbs. Tomatoes were later added in the 1600s after being introduced to Europe from South America. In the 1880s, a pizza maker in Naples created a red, white, and green pizza to honor the Italian flag, naming it after the queen - this became a classic Neapolitan pizza. Today, pizza has spread worldwide but bears little resemblance to the original Italian versions.

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Basic Reading Assignment 3 - Afnan Boma

Pizza originated in Italy and was originally just bread topped with olive oil, cheese, and herbs. Tomatoes were later added in the 1600s after being introduced to Europe from South America. In the 1880s, a pizza maker in Naples created a red, white, and green pizza to honor the Italian flag, naming it after the queen - this became a classic Neapolitan pizza. Today, pizza has spread worldwide but bears little resemblance to the original Italian versions.

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BASIC READING

Exercise in Modul 1, page 24-25


Lecturer : Mike Amelia, S.Pd.,M.Pd.

Written by:
Afnan Boma Leo Nibras (2010631060151)
Teacher Training and Education Faculty
English Language Education
Modul 1, page 24-25:
THE HISTORY OF PIZZA
One of the most popular foods around the world today is pizza. Pizza restaurants are popular
everywhere from Beijing to Moscow to Rio, and even in the United States, the home of the
hamburger, there are more restaurants than hamburger places.
This worldwide love for pizza is a fairly recent phenomenon. Before the 1950s, pizza was a
purely Italian food, with a long history in southern Italy. The origins of pizza are somewhat
uncertain, though they may go back to the Greeks (pita bread) or even earlier. Under the
Roman Empire, Italians often ate flat circles of bread, which they may have flavored with
olive oil, cheese, and herbs. By about the year 1000 A.D. in the area around Naples, this
bread had a name: piece. This early kind of pizza lacked one of the main ingredients we
associate with pizza: the tomato.

In fact, tomatoes did not exist in Europe until the sixteenth century, when Spanish explorers
brought them back from South America. The Spanish showed little interest in tomatoes, but
southern Italians soon began to cultivate them and use them in cooking. At some point in the
1600s, Neapolitan tomatoes were added to pizza, as it was known by then.

The next development in pizza making came about, according to legend, in June 1889, when
a Neapolitan pizza maker was asked to make pizza for the king and queen. To show his
patriotism, he decided to make it green, white, and red, like the Italian flag, using basil leaves,
mozzarella, and tomato. He named his pizza "Haneut euy" after the queen, and that is what
this classic kind of pizza is still called today. Today, pizza has become so common in so
many countries that its Italian origins are often forgotten. Indeed, the global versions of pizza
made with all kinds of ingredients have little in common with the Neapolitan original, as
anyone knows who has tasted a pizza in Naples.

a. Use your text marking in the passage to help you write the following information.
Change your marking if it does not indicate these points.
 Overall pattern of organization : Bold
 Text statement : Orange
 Supporting points (main ideas) :
 Paragraph 1 : Red
 Paragraph 2 : Green
 Paragraph 3 : Blue

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