Culinary Arts and Food Recipes
The art of culinary art and a variety of food recipes have been around since time immemorial, when people began to process foods before eating them. The better the food was prepared, the healthier the person was and the better he felt, and until now, practically nothing has changed in this regard. But the culinary art has undergone significant development, ranging from the products from which modern dishes are prepared and new cooking technologies, to a variety of cooking recipes. Food recipes can be simple and complex, include dozens of ingredients or just a couple, require specific skills and a high level of cooking skills from the chef, or be available for home cooking. With all this, a dish prepared according to any recipe should be tasty and healthy.
Recipes in Books and on TV
Food recipes have a long history, during which not only the recipes for cooking have changed, but also the way they are stored and distributed. If at the very beginning culinary recipes were formed spontaneously and passed from mouth to mouth, then with the advent of writing, the situation has improved significantly – food recipes could be written down, stored and developed. The advent of book printing has led to the fact that, along with technical and fictional literature, cookbooks have become widespread – collections of cooking recipes with descriptions, images and recommendations. Television, with its culinary show and author's culinary programs, has also contributed to the development and popularization of the culinary arts. But the flourishing of the mass popularization of recipes for cooking dishes, like much else at the present time, is due to the emergence and development of the Internet.
Culinary Websites with Food Recipes
Currently, the most accessible and up-to-date recipe resources are culinary sites. There are many such sites, of different levels, quality and focus. Some are created by famous personalities and contain recipes and advice from professional chefs, examples of such sites are the culinary sites of Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Yulia Vysotskaya or Evgeny Klopotenko. Some amateur sites, unfortunately, can have a very dubious content such as "cute salad of sprat in tomato and mayonnaise", and some contain truly masterpieces of culinary art, passed down from generation to generation in the family. There are sites dedicated to the culinary traditions of a particular country, region or even the whole world – a good example of such a site is kashevar.com, where you can find both recipes for traditional dishes from around the world and many recipes compiled and prepared by the author of this site. In addition, culinary sites can be very different in their subject matter – they can be highly specialized and contain, for example, recipes for pizza or barbecue meats, sushi and rolls, baked goods or soups. Other culinary sites may have a broader focus and contain completely different recipes.
Food Recipes and World Cuisines
Food recipes from different countries and peoples of the world differ significantly from each other. First of all, it depends on the raw material base – products that can be eaten in certain regions. For example, the Scandinavian countries and Japanese cuisine are characterized by the widespread use of fish and other seafood, and corn is traditionally used in the cuisines of the countries of the North and South America. The peculiarities of national cuisines were significantly influenced by religion, which determines what and when can be eaten. For Jews, traditional dishes must obey kosher, for Muslims – halal, and for Orthodox Christians there are periodic fasts, during which not all foods can be eaten. Today, the food base for culinary recipes is almost the same all over the world – most of the ingredients of the dishes can be bought in the market or in the supermarket anywhere in the world. And national cuisines also spread all over the world – no one is surprised by Japanese or Chinese cuisine in London or Ukrainian cuisine in Toronto, Indian dishes in New York or Italian pizza in any city in the world.