The word "cooking" has a narrow sense and a broad sense. In a narrow sense, it is cooked food; A broad explanation refers to the whole process of cooking all kinds of meals. The selection, primary processing, cutting and matching of raw materials are all preparations and services for "cooking".
Therefore, from the selection of raw materials, primary processing, cutting and matching, and then according to the different requirements of different products, various operations are carried out to form a system, which is called "cooking".
The development of cooking art
Cooking art is gradually formed, developed and enriched in the development of cooking history. With the development of material production and the progress of social life, cooking has become more and more aesthetic, until it develops into a variety of colorful dishes and rich and gorgeous banquets with both practicality and aesthetics. The form of expression is mainly through the combination of color, shape, fragrance, taste, taste and feast of Yaozhuan itself. People often call the former the art of taste and the latter the art of banquet.
The art of taste and the art of banquet boil down to the art of taste. Cooking not only pays attention to the beauty of physical taste, but also pays attention to the beauty of psychological taste, that is, the taste other than taste, so that people can get the satisfaction of blending material and spirit in the diet prepared by the chef. Cooking technology is a means to realize the art of taste, which is the essence of cooking art, and its main purpose is "smell it, make it tasteless."
Banquet art is another manifestation of cooking art. The combination and arrangement of dishes, the configuration of tableware and drinking utensils, the application of cooking techniques, and the performance of Yao Yao's overall flavor and characteristics are all carefully arranged. Banquet art follows the general aesthetic principles of realistic beauty, including social environment beauty, social things beauty, natural things beauty and artistic beauty.