A GUIDE TO
YOUR
COOKING
Cooking or cookery is the art, technology and
craft of preparing food for consumption with
the use of heat. Cooking techniques and
ingredients vary widely across the world, from
grilling food over an open fire to using electric
stoves, to baking in various types of ovens,
reflecting unique environmental, economic,
and cultural traditions and trends
The ways or types of cooking also depend on
the skill and type of training an individual cook
has. Cooking is done both by people in their
own dwellings and by professional cooks and
chefs in restaurants and other food
establishments. Cooking can also occur
through chemical reactions without the
presence of heat, most notably with ceviche, a
traditional South American dish where fish is
cooked with the acids in lemon or lime juice.
Preparing food with heat or fire is an activity
unique to humans. Some anthropologists
think that cooking fires first developed around
250,000 years ago, although there is evidence
for the controlled use of fire by Homo erectus
beginning 400,000 years ago
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