
Topic
preparar alimentos para su consumo mediante la aplicación de calor
La cocina, también conocida como arte culinario, es el arte, la ciencia y la habilidad de usar el calor para hacer que los alimentos sean más apetecibles, digestibles, nutritivos o seguros. Las técnicas e ingredientes de cocina varían ampliamente, desde asar alimentos sobre un fuego abierto, hasta usar estufas eléctricas, hornear en varios tipos de hornos, hervir y escaldar en agua, reflejando las condiciones locales, técnicas y tradiciones. La cocina es un aspecto de todas las sociedades humanas y un universal cultural.
“Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.”
“No one here will be surprised to hear me say that the Promethean fire which first raised humanity above the animal was the cooking fire.”
“Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.”
“Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.”
“The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.”
“Velocius (or citius) quam asparagi coquantur.”
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