- Cooking is the art, science, and discipline of preparing and presenting food.
- 02Humans started cooking 1.8-2.3 million years ago.
- 03Chopsticks were initially created for cooking, not as an eating utensil.
- 04There are about 941,600 chefs around the world.
- 05The Michelin Star is considered the highest international culinary award.
Hard-boiled egg yolks turn green because of a chemical reaction.
Overcooked hard boiled eggs look green because of the thin, green iron(II) sulfide coating on the yolk.
Sandwiches are a lazy man’s dish.
The sandwich was popularized in 1762 by John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Apparently, Montagu had a gambling problem that made him spend hours at the card table. He asked the house cook to bring him something he could eat without leaving his seat. Finally, the cook presented him with what we now know and love as the sandwich.
The Yale culinary tablets are the oldest cookbooks in the world.
Dating back to 1700 B.C., these Mesopotamian tablets display the oldest recipes. According to experts, the dishes are meant to be served for royalty. They recovered 25 recipes for stew, mostly meat-based with a few vegetable varieties. However, the recipes merely listed ingredients without any directions. Recipes for pastries were also found in the tablets.
You can’t mess up mushrooms.
The special polymer chitin in mushrooms’ cell walls ensure a tender texture even in high temperatures.
