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Cooking is an act of preparing food for eating. It encompasses a vast range of methods, tools and combinations of ingredients to improve the flavour or digestibility of food. It generally requires the selection, measurement and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure in an effort to achieve the desired result. Constraints on success include the variability of ingredients, ambient conditions, tools and the skill of the individual cooking.

The diversity of cooking worldwide is a reflection of the myriad nutritional, aesthetic, agricultural, economic, cultural and religious considerations that impact upon it.

Cooking requires applying heat to a food which usually, though not always, chemically transforms it, thus changing its flavor, texture, appearance, and nutritional properties. Cooking proper, as opposed to roasting, requires the boiling of water in a receptable, and was practiced at least since the 10th millennium BC with the introduction of pottery. There is archaeological evidence of roasted foodstuffs, both animal and vegetable, in human (Homo erectus) campsites dating from the earliest known use of fire some 800,000 years ago.

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@FreddyPizzle what you cooking me for breakfast???
thabaddestdiva (Krystal R) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:58:50 -0000
@FreddyPizzle what you cooking me for breakfast???
Cooking carribean chicken for tea in deep winter in Edinburgh. Yummy yummy globalisation!
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Cooking carribean chicken for tea in deep winter in Edinburgh. Yummy yummy globalisation!
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@sweetmisery4eve what u cooking me doydoy?
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@sweetmisery4eve what u cooking me doydoy?
@Ador_ oh wait, you hate my cooking.
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@Ador_ oh wait, you hate my cooking.

 
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