Cooking
 Cooking
is the act of preparing food. It encompasses a vast range of methods,
tools and combinations of ingredients to improve the flavor or
digestibility of food.
It generally requires the selection, measurement
and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure in an effort to
achieve the desired result. Constraints on success include the
variability of ingredients, ambient conditions, tools and the skill of
the individual cooking.
The diversity of cooking worldwide is a
reflection of the myriad nutritional, aesthetic, agricultural, economic,
cultural and religious considerations that impact upon it.
Cooking frequently, though not always,
involves applying heat in order to chemically transform a food, thus
changing its flavor, texture, appearance, and nutritional properties.
There is archaeological evidence of cooked foodstuffs, both animal and
vegetable in human settlements dating from the earliest known use of
fire.
The earliest use of cooking is possibly Homo erectus,
although the evidence is in contention between paleo-anthropologists.
Cooking
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