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The importance of cooking for humanity is essential because we interact withit every day. Cooking styles varies depending the country and culture we talk about. For example Puerto Rico has a very peculiar cooking style that differs it from the rest of the world. Since I was a boy my grandmother show me how to cook and eat. Because of it I became a big eater and food passed to be a very important subject in my life. If we talk about the cooking in Puerto Rico we will need to divided between everyday cooking and holyday cooking. In this country food is a everyday thing that even unite families and strangers together. This quality was even stronger in the past forty years. I remembered when my grandparents told me about how important was food to the people in old days. They told me about how they prepared and preserved meat without refrigeration in the old days. During the years I had been exposed to different kinds of cooking that really affected my judgement about what I called good food. They are the latin, American, and French food. In this journey of finding which is the best food I notice that some people do not accept certain foods because differences in culture and religion. As we can see in the movie Babette's Fe
Cooking changes foods physically or chemically so that they become more palatable and more easily digested. The use of heat kills or inactivates disease-causing organisms and parasites in the food. Heat also retards the action of enzymes and organisms that cause food to spoil. The meaning of the word cooking is not limited to the applying of heat to foods. Foods are changed by preparing them in many different ways. They may be altered by cutting, chopping, chilling, and freezing and by mixing different foodstuffs together. Thus the word cooking defines all ways of preparing food for the table. "The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of humanity than the discovery of a new star," one expert on fine food has remarked. The preparation of nutritious food is so vital to good health that cookery is important both as an art and as a science. In the laboratory scientists constantly make discoveries about the foods the human body needs. In the home kitchen careful shoppers plan meals that are nourishing as well as attractive and appetizing. They select varied foods that contain elements to encourage growth in the children of the household and continued health and vigor in the adults. Modern cooking is big business, too. Professional cooks prepare an increasing amount of the world's food in hotel and restaurant kitchens, and workers in factories process canned, packaged, and frozen foods for wide distribution. Convenience foods save the cook both time and effort. They may be stored for serving when unexpected guests arrive or when storms or other emergencies isolate the cook from the store or even from sources of heat and water. Lists of emergency supplies, including recommended foods, are available in a Federal Emergency Management Agency handbook. In such countries as the United States and Canada, which have been settled by peoples of many nations, the cooking traditions of the various motherlands are frequently carried on. The Canadian province of Quebec clings to French foods as well as to French speech. In the English-speaking provinces favorite dishes include the roast beef and Yorkshire pudding of England and the porridge and scones of Scotland. The custom of afternoon tea is widespread. Cooks in all the American countries are indebted to the Indians, who introduced such fine foods as corn, tomatoes, pumpkins, cacao, turkeys, and potatoes. Ways and means of applying heat have undergone many changes. People still used an open fireplace to cook in colonial and pioneer times in America. The fam
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Approximate Word count = 1714
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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