Cooking
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Cooking, also known as cookery, is the art, science and craft of using heat to make food more palatable, digestible, nutritious, or safe. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely, from grilling
A man cooking in a restaurant kitchen, Morocco
Pots being heated with a wood-burning fire in South India
Doughnuts frying in oil
Water is often used to cook foods such as noodles.
Human
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Humans are the most abundant and widespread species of primates, characterized by bipedalism, minimal body hair, and large, complex brains enabling the development of advanced technology, culture, and
Cooking
…refers to cooking that primarily focuses on the aesthetic presentation and taste of food. Preparing food with heat or fire is an activity unique to humans. Archaeological evidence of cooking fires dates to at least 300,000 years ago, but some estimate that humans started cooking as early as 2 million years…
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Reconstruction of Lucy, the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton found
Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
Medieval French manuscript illustration of the three classes of medieval society from the 13th-century Li Livres dou Santé