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When did you start cooking?

Cooking these days is an art. There are great chefs, famous restaurants, thousands of cookbooks, millions of people take pride in their ability to cook well. But there was a time when a person did not cook at all. The ancients ate raw food.

Even after the fire was opened, the most that was done was the carcass of the animal was placed on a burning fire. And only gradually did man learn to bake in a pit filled with red-hot stones, or to cook meat and vegetables by placing red-hot stones in vessels of water. Ancient people used to roast whole animals over an open fire.

Over time, people learned to bake fish, birds and small animals in clay. All this was poured with sauce, and the food became tastier. If we turn to the ancient Egyptians, we find that they developed the ability to cook. Public bakeries baked bread for the people. In Greek civilization, food was prepared with luxury. Food was brought to Ancient Athens even from very distant countries, and the Romans held magnificent banquets.

In the Middle Ages, the art of cooking declined, and the only place where good cooking was in the monasteries. When this art was revived, Italy, Spain and France won the championship in it. These countries prided themselves on having a more refined taste than England or Germany, where people ate mostly meat.

It is noteworthy that ancient people knew almost the same methods of cooking that we use now. They just did it very rudely. For example, we boil, fry, deep-fry, bake, stew, steam, dry or dry. The American Indians knew all of these techniques except for deep frying.

Author: Likum A.

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