List of basic cooking topics

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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.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to cooking:

[edit] Essence of cooking

Main article: Cooking

[edit] History of cooking

History of Chinese cuisine

[edit] Styles of cooking

Sample famous cuisines around the world:

Cajun cuisine - Chinese cuisine - Cuisine of the Mediterranean - English cuisine - French cuisine - Italian cuisine - Japanese cuisine - Vietnamese cuisine

See the entire list of cuisines

[edit] Basic ingredients

Decorated bread loaves.

Eggplants, also called Aubergines.

[edit] Cooking techniques

Some major hot cooking techniques:

[edit] Other preparation techniques

Some cool techniques

[edit] Basic cooking concepts

[edit] Famous chefs

Julia Child - Auguste Escoffier - Alton Brown - Jamie Oliver - Wolfgang Puck - Gordon Ramsay

[edit] Cooking lists

[edit] See also

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[edit] External links

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