Exercise 10. Write one word in each gap.

The European Diet

It’s hard for us to imagine what (1) ______ included in the European diet before America was discovered (2) ______ Columbus in 1492. Many ingredients which today (3) ______ grown all over the world were unknown to medieval Europeans. Potatoes, tomatoes, maize and chocolate (4) ______ all originally imported from the New World. Until then, meals had (5) ______ prepared using ingredients native to Europe, such as root vegetables. Of course, spices such as pepper (6) ______ been traded and added to food for centuries. When the potato was first introduced, it was surprisingly unpopular. It (7) ______ considered to be poisonous and it took a long time to become common. There is a story of Parmentier, a French army officer, who (8) ______ potatoes planted in the royal garden and (9) ______ Marie Antoinette to wear a potato flower to make them fashionable. The poor peasants were curious about the new plants and many of them were stolen to (10) ______ planted in their own gardens. It was the start of French fries!

It’s hard for us to imagine what (1) ______ included in the European diet ........