I really enjoy cooking as a hobby.
Cooking is a hobby of mine too its and art and craft of preparing food to eat
I agree! It's also an important life skill that can help someone finally by not having to eat out as often.
I find it amazing how much cooking techniques and methods vary around the world there is open fire, electric, outdoor ovens etc
I am definitely interested in the science of cooking. It's always interesting how people find that things taste different if they're cooked over an actual flame as opposed to an electric stove or oven.
Using fire or heat to prepare food is something only humans do
True, but I've read about studies where I believe monkeys, if given the chance, prefer cooked foods.
and other food establishments. Cooking can also occur through chemical reactions without the presence of heat, such as in ceviche, a traditional South American dish where fish is cooked with the acids in lemon or lime juice.
Preparing food with heat or fire is an activity unique to humans. It may have started around 2 million years ago, though archaeological evidence for it reaches no more than 1 million years ago.
The expansion of agriculture, commerce, trade, and transportation between civilizations in different regions offered cooks many new
of the imperial family used simple clothing and had uncomplicated food to eat.
Empress Marie Feodorovna knew how to cook and at Langinkoski she had an opportunity of devoting herself to that hobby. It is known also that she did not like washing the dishes.
Some years ago a photograph taken at Langinkoski was found in the Russian State Archives in St. Petersburg. The picture shows empress Marie Feodorovna sitting on the kitchen porch busying herself with cooking. The young officer to the right is Grand Duke George, her second youngest son