The village of Cheddar was an ideal place for cheese making.
Near the village there is a limestone gorge, the Cheddar Gorge, with many caves that in the Middle Ages provided a stable temperature and adequate humidity for the ripening process.
It probably did not appear in France until 1644, and the French elite had the opportunity to taste the drink in 1669 at a party given by Ottoman envoy Mustafa Pasha.
The first café in Paris was established in 1671, and by that time there were more than 3000 cafes in England.
The most controversial topping, pineapple, was added by a Greek immigrant, Sam Panopoulos, to a pizza served in his restaurant, Satellite, in Chatham, Canada.
