Cooking

Cooking is the process of preparing food by use of heat. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions. Cooks themselves also vary widely in skill and training.

Preparing food with heat or fire is an activity unique to humans, and some scientists believe the advent of cooking played an important role in human evolution. Most anthropologists believe that cooking fires first developed around 250,000 years ago.

The development of agriculture, commerce and transportation between civilizations in different regions offered cooks many new ingredients. New inventions and technologies, such as pottery for holding and boiling water, expanded cooking techniques. Some modern cooks apply advanced scientific techniques to food preparation.

• History of cooking
• Ingredients in cooking
  • Proteins
  • Carbohydrates
  • Fats
  • Water
  • Vitamins and minerals
• Cooking Methods
  • Roasting
  • Baking
  • Boiling
  • Frying
  • Smoking
• Food safety
  • Effects on nutritional content of food
• Science of cooking
• Home-cooking vs. factory cooking
• Cooking Outline