The word "cooking" has narrow and broad meanings. In a narrow sense, it is cooked food; The broad explanation refers to the whole process of cooking all kinds of meals. The selection of raw materials, preliminary processing, cutting and matching are all preparations for and services for "cooking".
Therefore, from the selection of raw materials, preliminary 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 course of 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 banquet of Yaozhuan itself. People often refer to the former as the art of taste and the latter as 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 outside the taste, so that people can get the satisfaction of blending material and spirit in the diet prepared by the chef. Cooking technology is the means to realize the art of taste, which is the essence of cooking art. Its main idea is "smell makes it out, but tasteless makes it in".
Banquet art is another manifestation of cooking art. There are careful arrangements for the combination and arrangement of dishes, the configuration of tableware and drinking utensils, the application of cooking techniques, and the performance of the overall flavor characteristics of Yaoyao. Banquet art follows the general aesthetic principles of realistic beauty, including the beauty of social environment, social things, natural things and artistic beauty.