How We Came To Be

Have you ever wondered why we cook the way we do? Why we roast things, and boil things like we do? I had never really given it much thought. I paid attention to the fact that we roast and boil mainly because that is what we had too. This book called Consider the Fork byBee Wilson book has enlighten me in the history of cooking in ways I never thought it would have. There are many things about cooking that I just assumed were normal all the time, and that cooking had been changing through ages as technology advanced. However, never paying attention to the details behind that cooking, the burden and arduous work it took in being a cook. It was come to my attention how fire has influenced our ways of cooking. 

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Can yoWilson states that "the English predilection for roast beef was not, at root, a question of taste; it was a question of resources" (Pg. 82) Imagine if the English hadn't had so much firewood to spare, roasting wouldn't have been such a British custom. It is weird to think that due to our resources and not our wit we are what we are. I have always absentmindedly thought people in medieval times just cooked like we did. They had the same basic utensils like us: pots, pans, forks, knifes etc. I had never thought on the tedious task cooking with fire had. It wasn't simple at all, but it was a matter of what resources they had at hand to develop a meal in order to survive. Basic cooking before was rudimentary, and this book has taught me so many things I had never thought on before. It has opened my eyes to things I wouldn't usually have thought of before.