Cooking: it means to prepare food for eating by means of heat. It is very interesting but it takes skill to make the perfect dish. Cooking is a difficult skill because there are so many things to master like to not burn the food or what the right amount of ingredients is. If you cook long enough you can probably make the dishes by heart.

“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 in South Africa has provided evidence supporting control of fire by early humans by 1 million years ago”. Cooking is important because if you’re going to eat meat and you eat it raw you can get really sick. Some people think that cooking is just using heat and making hot dishes. But cooking can be other things, like making a salad or a cheese platter. I think that cooking is not just making hot dishes, but preparing food as well. 

Baking is a type of cooking and, it means to bake (food or dish) in an oven. You can bake cupcakes. You first make the batter. Then you make the icing. Then you wait for the cupcakes to cool because if you don’t, then the icing would melt, and nobody likes melted icing. You can then put on toppings like sprinkles or fruit.“In the 1700’s, Cupcakes were originally referred to as number cakes. The first cupcake recipe was created in 1776. It was a light cake that was baked in small cups. In 1919, Hostess introduced it’s very first snack cake (AKA HostessCupcake)”. Baking is a type of cooking but they’re different. Lots of people think they’re the same, but they aren’t. Because when you make bread, you don’t say that you’re cooking bread, you say that you’re baking bread. Because if you said you’re cooking bread, that isn’t proper grammar.

Unusual topics in culinary arts: The food arts aren’t just cooking and baking, there are other things too, like freeze drying fruits and making ice cream. When you cook or bake you use heat but you can freeze ingredients to make food, too. Ice cream comes in many different flavors, like vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. But before you add the flavors you have to make the base of the ice cream. If you want to make a plain ice cream base it’s just cream and sweetened milk. “An ice-cream-like food was first eaten in China in 618-97AD. King Tang of Shang, had 94 ice men who helped to make a dish of buffalo milk, flour and camphor. A kind of ice-cream was invented in China about 200 BC when a milk and rice mixture was frozen by packing it into snow”. After doing this research, I realized that the culinary arts are not just about heating up food, it can be about mixing, freezing food and freeze drying food. Cooking is important because your heating up food to make it more enjoyable to eat, and you need to eat to survive. So go try cooking, it’ll be fun!