Cooking is a complex and regular process of transforming ingredients into food. Cooking can make food more delicious, better looking and better smelling. A delicious dish must be good in color, fragrance, shape and nutrition, which not only makes people feel satisfied, but also makes the nutrition of the food more easily absorbed by the human body.

In a narrow sense, cooking is the thermal processing of food raw materials, and the raw food raw materials are processed into mature food; Broadly speaking, it refers to the reasonable selection and blending of food raw materials, processing and cleaning, heating and seasoning, so as to make them into safe, harmless, healthy and strong food dishes with good color, fragrance, taste, shape, quality and nutrition, which are conducive to absorption, including seasoned cooked food and prepared raw food.

Basic meaning:

Raw materials are the material basis of cooking. With the development of China's economy, the cooking materials are more colorful, and both international cooking materials and traditional cooking materials in China show their magic power. Cooking materials have been greatly developed and improved in variety, specification, quality and quantity. Traditional and innovative cooking materials, combined with cooking skills, are transformed into new delicacies, which meet the needs of people all over the world and inject great vitality into the development of China cooking.

For example, many traditional cooking materials such as chicken, duck, fish, pig, cow, sheep and so on. It is the result of hard work, painstaking management, tailor-made, reasonable materials, clever compatibility, careful cooking and careful conditioning of chefs in China, which has left a deep impression on people's minds and formed different cooking schools and food cultures. However, many new cooking materials imported from abroad have entered the catering market, expanding the food structure, injecting new vitality into modern Chinese cooking and providing sufficient material guarantee.