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CHAPTER 1 Anyone for Pizza? WHAT IS PIZZA? WHAT KINDS OF PIZZA DO PEOPLE EAT? People around the world love pizza. In the United States alone there are about 70,000 pizzerias (pizza restaurants). It's popular in Brazil, Japan, India, Pakistan, and South Korea. And in 2008, the first pizzeria opened in North Korea! A regular pizza is a flat, round piece of bread with tomato sauce, cheese, and maybe other toppings on it. There are many kinds of toppings. How about four different cheeses? Or maybe you like chicken or fish? Many people enjoy pepperoni, a kind of sausage. Egg, onion, herbs— they all go on pizzas. Pizzas from Italy often have salty anchovies, capers, and olives as toppings. Some people hate those foods. What about you?

第一章有人要披萨吗？ 什么是披萨？人们吃什么样的披萨？ 全世界的人都喜欢披萨。 仅在美国就有大约7万家披萨店。 它在巴西、日本、印度、巴基斯坦和韩国都很流行。 2008年，第一家披萨店在朝鲜开业！普通的披萨是一块扁平的圆形面包，上面有番茄酱、奶酪和其他配料。 配料有很多种。 四种不同的奶酪怎么样？ 或者你喜欢鸡肉或鱼？ 许多人喜欢意大利辣香肠，这是一种香肠。 鸡蛋、洋葱、香草——它们都加在披萨上。 意大利的披萨通常有咸凤尾鱼、刺山柑和橄榄作为配料。 有些人讨厌这些食物。 你呢？

In France, they have a pizza with potato and cheese. Not good if you're dieting! There are sweet pizzas, too. You can learn how to make a chocolate, banana, and ice cream pizza on the Internet. Pizza bases are always made of dough, but they can have different shapes. In Chicago, USA, they have "pizza pie" with a base like a deep dish. And to make a calzone, you fold the pizza and close the base like a book before you cook it. The "topping" is inside. The world's largest pizza was made in 1990 in Norwood, south Africa. It weighed over 12,000 kilos and was more than 37 meters wide! To make it, they used 4,500 kilos of flour, 1,800 kilos of cheese, and 900 kilos of tomato sauce!

在法国，他们吃土豆和奶酪的披萨。 如果你正在节食，那就不好了！也有甜披萨。 你可以在网上学习如何制作巧克力、香蕉和冰淇淋披萨。 披萨的底总是用面团做的，但它们可以有不同的形状。 在美国芝加哥，他们有一种“披萨派”，底部像一个深盘子。 要做馅饼，你要把披萨折叠起来，在烹饪之前把底像书一样合上。 “浇头”在里面。世界上最大的披萨是1990年在南非的诺伍德制作的。 它重达12,000公斤，宽超过37米！为了制作它，他们用了4500公斤面粉，1800公斤奶酪和900公斤番茄酱！

CHAPTER 2 The Pizza Story WHEN AND WHERE DID PIZZA START? It's hard to say when and where pizza started. People began to make bread about 30,000 years ago. We can be sure they put meat and other kinds of foods on it. The Ancient Greeks made flat bread called pita. They put oil, herbs, and cheese on it. Later, the Ancient Romans made a flat bread with cheese, herbs, and honey called placenta. But this wasn't what we call pizza today. Then in the 16th century, a new fruit arrived in Italy from the Americas— the tomato. By the 18th century, the Italians were making tomato sauce. Then someone thought of putting it on bread. The modern pizza was born!

第二章披萨的故事披萨起源于何时何地？ 很难说披萨是从何时何地开始的。 人们大约在3万年前开始制作面包。 我们可以肯定他们把肉和其他种类的食物放在上面。 古希腊人制作的扁平面包叫皮塔饼。 他们把油、香草和奶酪放在上面。 后来，古罗马人用奶酪、草药和蜂蜜制作了一种扁平的面包，叫做胎盘。 但这不是我们今天所说的披萨。 然后在16世纪，一种新的水果从美洲传到了意大利——西红柿。 到了18世纪，意大利人开始制作番茄酱。 然后有人想到把它放在面包上。 现代披萨诞生了！

At first, rich Italians thought tomatoes were dangerous! But poor Italians put tomato on their pizza. When rich people tried pizza, they loved it. Pizza was for everyone! In 1889, a pizzaiolo, or pizza maker, in Naples made a special new pizza for Italy's Queen Margherita. He used the national colors: red tomato, white cheese, and a green herb called basil. His "Margherita" is the most famous type of pizza today. The first pizzeria in the United States was probably Lombardi's, which opened in 1905 in Little Italy, a neighborhood in New York City, and is still there today. About 94 percent of people in the USA enjoy pizza regularly. They have a national pizza month: October. They eat 3,000,000,000 pizzas each year— 350 slices every second!

起初，富有的意大利人认为西红柿很危险！但可怜的意大利人在披萨上放番茄。 当富人尝试披萨时，他们喜欢它。 披萨适合所有人！1889年，那不勒斯的一位披萨师傅为意大利女王玛格丽特做了一款特别的披萨。 他用了代表国家的颜色：红番茄、白奶酪和一种叫做罗勒的绿色草本植物。 他的“玛格丽塔”披萨是当今最著名的披萨。 美国的第一家披萨店可能是Lombardi's， 1905年在纽约市的小意大利（Little Italy）社区开业，至今仍在那里。 大约94%的美国人经常吃披萨。 他们有一个全国性的披萨月：十月。 他们每年吃掉30亿个披萨——每秒350片！

How do you make a pizza? First, you have to make the base, so you need dough. You can make dough yourself with water, flour, oil, and salt. Or you can buy the base from a store. That's easier! Then you have to make a round, flat base with the dough. That isn't easy. Pizza makers have to practice a lot to learn to do it by hand. They spin the dough in the air to make it flatter and rounder. In some pizzerias, you can watch the pizzaiolo do this. When the base is ready, it's time to choose the toppings. Usually, the first one is tomato sauce and then small pieces of cheese. Italian mozzarella cheese is best. You can use any toppings you want. Do you like meat? Put your favorite meat on the pizza. Fish? Have a seafood pizza. Maybe you're a vegetarian. Pizza without meat or fish is really good, too!

你怎么做披萨？首先，你要做底，所以你需要面团。 你可以用水、面粉、油和盐自己做面团。 或者你也可以从商店里买。 这是更容易!然后用面团做一个又圆又平的底。 这并不容易。披萨师傅必须经过大量的练习才能学会手工制作。 他们在空中旋转面团，使它更平更圆。 在一些披萨店里，你可以看到披萨师傅这样做。 基底准备好后，是时候选择配料了。 通常，第一道是番茄酱，然后是小块奶酪。 意大利马苏里拉奶酪是最好的。 你可以用任何你喜欢的配料。 你喜欢吃肉吗？把你最喜欢的肉放在披萨上。 鱼?吃个海鲜披萨。 也许你是一个素食主义者。 没有肉和鱼的披萨也很好吃！

Now, your pizza is ready for the oven. For home cooking, you can get a special pizza stone. Put it in a cold oven: a cold pizza stone can break in a hot oven. Turn on the oven and wait 45 minutes for the oven and the stone to get very hot. Then put your pizza on the stone. But the best way to cook a pizza is in a brick oven with a wood fire— much better than an electric oven!

现在，你的披萨可以放进烤箱了。 在家做饭，你可以买一块特殊的披萨石。 把它放在冷的烤箱里：冷的披萨石在热的烤箱里会碎。 打开烤箱，等待45分钟，让烤箱和石头变得非常热。 然后把你的披萨放在石头上。 但是做披萨最好的方法是用烧木柴的砖炉——比电炉好得多！