It's hard to pinpoint when exactly the culinary arts started. People have been cooking and preparing food for over two million years, starting with cave people cooking meat on fires to improve the taste or texture, as well as making it safer to eat.
History. The origins of culinary arts began with primitive humans roughly 2 million years ago. Various theories exist as to how early humans used fire to cook meat.
The origins of culinary arts began with primitive humans roughly 2 million years ago. There are various theories as to how early humans used fire to cook meat. According to anthropologist Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, primitive humans simply tossed a raw hunk of meat into the flames and watched it sizzle.
The culinary arts, in the Western world, as a craft and later as a field of study, began to evolve at the end of the
Renaissance period. Prior to this, chefs worked in castles, cooking for kings and queens, as well as their families, guests, and other workers of the castle.,The food eaten within a country represents its history and the origins of its people, culture, and traditions. South Africa, where I live