*2000 BCE: Egyptians were the first to develop the art of cheese making into a specialized trade. They made cheese from the milk of cows, sheep, and goats and used it for medicinal and religious purposes.

*400 BCE : The Greeks were great cheese makers and considered cheese to be a staple food. They produced a variety of cheeses, including feta, which is still popular today.

*1st Century CE: The Romans learned cheese making from the Greeks and continued to develop it. They created new varieties of cheese and used it as a source of nutrition for their armies.

*500 CE: Cheese making spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages. Monks were particularly skilled at cheese making and developed many new varieties of cheese, including Gouda and Camembert.

*1851: The industrial revolution brought about many changes in cheese production. Machines were developed to make cheese making more efficient, and pasteurization was introduced to improve safety and shelf life.

*1911: Processed cheese was invented by Swiss cheese maker Walter Gerber. He melted cheese and added sodium phosphate to create a smooth, meltable cheese that could be sliced and packaged.

*1948: Cheez Whiz was introduced by Kraft Foods as a convenient alternative to natural cheese. American cheese also became popular, and was used in fast food burgers and grilled cheese sandwiches.

* 21st Century: In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in artisanal cheese. Small, independent cheese makers are creating unique and flavorful cheeses using traditional methods. Cheese lovers can now enjoy a wide variety of cheeses from around the world.

The Pizza was made to represent the colors of the Italian flag, the red tomatoes, green basil and white mozzarella.

RED- The tomatoes were already used in Naples as early as the 1700s, however they first came to Italy by the Spaniards as early as the 1600s. First they were suspected to be poisonous, and were used as ornamental plants. Once the toxicity rumor was disproven, they began to be used in multiple different recipes. The toxicity rumors were due to tomatoes acidity absorbing lead from their lead based plates and killing the wealthy aristocrats who could afford the plates. The poor common people who ate off of wooden plates, were unaffected, leading to suspicion on the fruit.

GREEN- The basil was first recorded in the Father of Medicine Hippocrates (between 375 and 350 BCE) under the name Basilikon in ancient greek. The name was translated into ôkimon, which is also found in the Historia Plantarum by the Father of Botany. It was also stated as having medicinal properties like soothing a scorpion sting and that 'no mans mind has been affect by it'. It is native to India, Indonesia and some areas of Australia. But through an ancient version of the silk road, it traveled up and through china and down into Africa and eventually into Europe. https://www.ahpa.org/herbs_in_history_basil

WHITE - First documented in the 12th century when monks in the monastery of Saint Lorenzo in Capua gave them to travelers. Its originally made with buffalo's milk, but was switched to cows milk once transported to the Americas. There is no specific origin documented of how mozzarella was created, 'legend' has it that a few cheese curds fell into a pail of hot watered and was created into the beloved cheese known today. It is also commonly eaten with tomatoes!

The bread, was an idea that dates as far back as Pompeii. They created rounds of breads, with triangle cuts in it, with burnt cheese sometimes on the surface.

Tomato's were not something that came from the Americas and were not transferred and grown in Spain until 1550, but the earliest published recipe appeared in Antonio Latini's 1692 cookbook.

But going back to the sixth century B.C in Greece, there was a cult of mathematicians, that believed heavily in Pythagorean theories. They use to bake cheese pizza's created of only cheese and crust, no sauce, since it wasn't yet discovered or thought of. They would bake these pizzas were baked and consumed as a religious practice, and were carved with the symbol of Pi. Claimed to be the most potent symbol of this mathematico-religious cult. In Pythagorean ceremony the

letter was inscribed on the pizza in

such a way that the horizontal member

of the letter constituted the diameter of

the pizza's circle, while the two vertical

strokes divided the pizza's lower half into

three sections.

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