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What is Cookery/Cooking? The Aims, Objectives and Effect of Cooking Food

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WHAT IS COOKERY / COOKING?   Cooking, cookery and culinary is defined as " The art/process of preparing food for consumption by mixing, dressing and applying heat ". Applying and removing heat from ingredients to make them more digestible, palatable and safe for human consumption.      Cooking is considered " both an art and a science ". The art of cooking is ancient. The first cook was a primitive man who placed a piece of meat on a fire which he lit to warm himself. He discovered that meat heated this way is not only tasty, but also much easier to chew. From this point in the unrecorded past, cooking evolved to reach its current level of sophistication. In the beginning, humanity ate to survive. Now we also still eat to survive, but efforts have been made to make food more enjoyable, such as cooking meat and vegetables in different ways to make them easier to eat, digest and make them more attractive, tastier and have a wider variety. This ...