| The act of eating is not only a mechanical process
of putting food into your mouth, but it is also a kind of a ritual
which enables us to connect with the substance that exists around
us and make it a part of our being. |
| A long time ago the heart had a prominent
position in the lives of many peoples. It didn't represent only the
sacrificial site where numerous different customs and rituals were
preformed, but it was also a place for cooking meals. |
| When archaeologists search for the remains of the
lost (extinct) cultures, they often dig through those layers of earth
where they have found traces of fire, which are a proof that once
there were people living there, keeping warm by the fire and cooking
food. |
| Even today, kitchen is one of the central
rooms in our home. It is the area where we prepare food and drinks
for ourselves, our friends and sometimes even our enemies (friends-to-be).
It is also the area where we express thankfulness to the force which
gives us the gifts we feed upon. |
| "A man his what he eats", said Ludwig
Fenerbach, while spreading the pioneer beliefs of Jacob Moleschott
about the provisions for the people, saying that food a person eats
is the basis of his upbringing (education) and civilization. What
people used to eat and the way they are it indicated their position
in the hierarchy of social structure. |
| Today, it is a well-known fact that
in the Middle Ages, Europeans had a strong need for spices, which
was the only way of neutralizing the sharp taste of the gauze, since
that time food couldn't be cooled or canned. Only the kings had the
privilege of having their food and drinks cooled down with the snow
brought from the nearly mountain pears. |
| Now, lets take a closer look at the
present and future condition of our nutrition. By the development
of technology we have gained new methods of laud cultivation, different
ways of production and improved methods of packing that reach us by
the ever faster means of transport. Most of the fresh products that
are sold nowadays are already prepared for cooking-washed, chopped
and peeled; so all we have to do is choose between a package for one,
two or five people. |
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