The History and Origins of Street Food

According to Food: The History of Taste, excavations in the ancient city of Pompeii - which was destroyed by a volcano in 79 A.D., killing an unknown number of its residents (though more than 1,000 skeletons have been found and it is estimated that roughly 11,000 people lived there at the time of the eruption) - show that street food establishments were quite popular back then.