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Era (Origin Period)

Era origin period places a dish in the historical span when it first appeared. Wikipedia records that "the term pizza was first recorded in AD 997, in a Latin manuscript from the southern Italian town of Gaeta," centuries before the dish took the form eaten today. Browsing by era shows which dishes share roughly the same age.

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Era of EmergenceSourced to the subject's own account
12,500 BCE 1
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1. Bread (Wikipedia)
WikipediaBread, History section, Natufian site
Quote, Bread, History section, Natufian site
The oldest evidence of bread-making has been found in a 14,500-year-old Natufian site in Jordan's northeastern desert.
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