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bread

Hunter-gatherers in Jordan baked flatbread roughly 14,000 years ago, thousands of years before anyone began farming grain.

pizza

The world's most expensive pizza took 72 hours to make and was topped with three kinds of caviar and edible gold.

cheese

There are over 1,800 known types of cheese, and the oldest sample found is a 3,600-year-old chunk on Chinese mummies.

pancake

People have eaten pancakes since the Stone Age; a 5,000-year-old iceman named Otzi had ground grain in his last meal.

sandwich

It is named for the Earl of Sandwich, who asked for meat in bread so he could keep playing cards.

porridge

Porridge is one of the oldest cooked foods, and Scotland once had wooden drawers for storing and slicing leftover cold oatmeal.

dumpling

Nearly every cuisine has a dumpling, from Chinese jiaozi to Italian gnocchi, wrapping or rolling dough around or into a filling.

biscuit

The word biscuit comes from Latin meaning twice-cooked, because early versions were baked twice to dry them out for long voyages.

pretzel

Pretzels may date to medieval European monks, who supposedly shaped the dough to look like arms folded across the chest in prayer.

oatmeal

Oats were long dismissed as horse feed in England, while the Scots embraced them as a hearty everyday breakfast staple.

risotto

Risotto turns creamy without any cream; slowly stirring short-grain rice releases its starch, which thickens the broth into a silky sauce.

lasagna

Lasagna is among the oldest pasta shapes, and the word first named the wide flat sheets rather than the layered baked dish.

honey

Honey never spoils; sealed pots found in ancient Egyptian tombs were still perfectly edible after more than 3,000 years.

noodle

The oldest known noodles, about 4,000 years old, were found in a sealed bowl in China, made from millet.

omelet

Napoleon's army supposedly made a giant omelet near Bessieres, France, and the town still cooks one from 15,000 eggs each Easter.

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