History Of Foods

0700  green beans and sweet corn are grown in the Americas.   

0700  Popcorn is used by the people of Central America   

0822  Hops added to beer, by the Carolingian abbot Adalard of Corbie   

0850  coffee is discovered by an Arab goat herder in Ethiopia.   

0879  gorgonzola cheese is introduced.   

0961  watermelons reported to be cultivated in Cordoba, Spain by Moorish.   

0997  the term "pizza" is mentioned for the first time "in a Latin text from the southern Italian town of Gaeta, which claims that a tenant of certain property is to give the bishop of Gaeta 'duodecim pizze' every Christmas Day, and another twelve every Easter Sunday".   

1100  wafers are introduced in Britain from France, by the Normans.   

1100  watermelons introduced in China.   

1148  Knights returning from the Crusades bring sugar to Europe and England   

1158  First mention of Watermelons cultivated in Seville   

1170  first mention of Cheddar cheese documented.   

1266  the first documented mention of genever (or jenever), or Dutch gin.   

1280  in some parts of China, restaurants operate with waiters serving food.   

1390  one of the earliest recipes for frumenty published in The English cookbook, The Forme of Cury.   

1400  shops in Italy make and sell pasta; men knead dough with their bare feet.   

1450  Documented mentions of palm oil being used as food from European travelers to West Africa   

1476  Meat pies are made and eaten in England   

1492  Christopher Columbus brings sweet potatoes, capsicums, and pineapples to Europe from the Americas   

1494  first mention of cucumbers cultivation by the Spanish in Hispaniola, Caribbean islands.   

1516  The Reinheitsgebot (purity law), perhaps the oldest food-quality regulation still in use in the 21st century, according to which the only allowed ingredients of beer are water, hops and barley-malt, is adopted by William IV, Duke of Bavaria   

1521  Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés transferred a small yellow tomato to Europe after he captured the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City   

1527  tomatoes and avocados are introduced to Spain from the Americas by explorers.   

1528  beans for baked beans and stews brought from North America to Italy and France; Native Americans are thought to have cooked beans with fat and maple syrup.   

1530  hernán Cortés introduced Maize into Spain from Mexico.   

1535  first reference of potato by the Spanish conquerors.   

1540  potatoes from South America arrive in Europe; initially grown but not eaten in France.   

1544  the earliest reference of the tomato in European literature appeared in a herbal written in 1544 by Pietro Andrea Mattioli, an Italian physician and botanist.   

1548  first documented instance of tomatoes in Italy.   

1550  First reference of cucumber cultivation in North America   

1570  First potato specimens introduced in Spain   

1573  hospital de la Sangre in Seville purchases potatoes.   

1576  spanish settlers cultivate watermelons in Florida.   

1578  potatoes were seen by Sir Francis Drake in his trip around the world. However, he does not bring potatoes back to Great Britain, despite common misconception.   

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