Cooking is one of my favorite hobbies.
Cooking is also refered to as cookery and is the art, technology, science, and also craft of preparing food for consumption! This can be done with or without heat.
I've never heard of it referred to as cookery before.
Well did you also know preparing food with heat/fire is relatively unique to humans?
Yes I'd assume so. I really don't see animals using fire.
Cooking with fire may have started roughly 2 million years ago but archarological evidence doesnt reach past 1 million years ago.
Were the cavemen from about a million years ago?
ingredients. New inventions and technologies, such as the invention of pottery for holding and boiling water, expanded cooking techniques. Some modern cooks apply advanced scientific techniques to food preparation to further enhance the flavor of the dish served.
History.
Phylogenetic analysis suggests that human ancestors may have invented cooking as far back as 1.8 million to 2.3 million years ago. Re-analysis of burnt bone fragments and plant ashes from the Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa, has provided evidence supporting control of fire by early humans there by 1
Cooking
Cooking or cookery is the art, technology, science and craft of preparing food for consumption. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions and trends. The ways or types of cooking also depend on the skill and type of training an individual cook has. Cooking is done both by people in their own dwellings and by professional cooks and chefs in restaurants