Evolution in cooking

What is cooking? As far as modern cooking is concerned, it is impossible to give an unambiguous answer to this question. Although Ozhegov's "Explanatory Dictionary" gives three definitions of this word: "1) The art of cooking. 2) Deliciously cooked food. 2) Shop or special department at a restaurant, canteen, selling semi-finished and ready-made food". It would seem that everything is simple and clear. However, it is far from being so. Especially if you follow the world history of culinary development.

However, someone may argue that the development of cooking in each country, in each region is its own. Therefore, it is impossible to talk about cooking as a single and holistic direction. However, this is not the case. You can easily see this by looking at the collection of recipes presented on this site, which absorbed the art of cooking of all peoples of the world. Proof of this is the section of the site "Kind of cuisine", which includes dishes prepared by people living in the most remote corners of the globe.

How did it become possible for Spanish or English dishes to occupy a place of honor on the Russian table? It's very simple. Because the general approach to cooking in the world has changed considerably. It is not just "the art of cooking", it is also a lifestyle, a style of eating. Looking back to biblical times, you can find that our ancestors were mostly vegetarians, because in those times only the rich could afford meat dishes. The poor were left to make puffed salad with mushrooms, or to eat lentil soup and barley bread.

Moving on to the European Middle Ages, one also finds this view of cookery expressed by Borde in his Dietary of Health xi: "God gave man foodstuffs, and the devil sent cooks to destroy them." In other words, the English author of the book wanted to say that nutrition, first of all, should consist of healthy food. The preparation of tasty food should be based solely on the fact that it should include in its culinary recipes exclusively healthy foodstuffs.

Modern cooking, the recipes of which are widely presented on the website webspoon.ru, allows us to conclude that it is quite possible to combine in one menu healthy foods, which make very tasty dishes. The evolution of people's approach to their diet shows that people have not only realized the importance of healthy eating, but also learned to combine, as they say, "pleasant with useful". And this requires not only perfect mastery of the art of cooking, but also the ability to distinguish between healthy foods and those that carry health risks.
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