The term “cook” includes a wide range of methods, tools, and combinations of ingredients to create the flavor and digestibility of food. The cooking technique, known as the culinary art, generally requires the selection, measurement, and combination of ingredients in a controlled procedure in an effort to achieve the desired result. Constraints for success include variability of ingredients, environmental conditions, tools, and the individual’s ability to cook. The diversity of cuisine around the world is a reflection of the many nutritional, artistic, agricultural, economic, cultural, and religious considerations that affect it. Cooking requires applying heat to a food which generally chemically transforms it and changes its taste, texture, appearance and nutritional properties. There is archaeological evidence that early humans used to cook their food with fire, which was the most important thing discovered by early humans. Cuisine, food and culinary culture vary from one country to another and from one culture to another and each cuisine has its specific particularity. Today, due to modern life changing everything around us and influencing our lifestyle and eating habits, people prepare their own food less. Eating habits tend to unify people from different societies. Food production and the eating process acquire new characteristics. The food available around us seems to be very different from what we used to eat.
Eating habits and modern life.
Everything is going fast, people don’t have time to cook, they don’t have the desire and patience to spend more time in the kitchen, and they don’t feel like preparing their own food. The older generation still prefers to cook their own food unlike the youth who prefer to eat fast food because they don’t want to spend a lot of time cooking and desire to cook. Modern life shapes our eating habits and makes us slaves to its speed. It is not difficult to find fast food restaurants, they are everywhere and in every corner. The consumption of fast food causes damage to the social and economic life of the country and leads to many health problems such as obesity and heart disease according to many studies. In addition, many nutrition experts from different countries have already declared the epidemic character of fast food. The rapid process of globalization and modern life influences our eating habits and provides the opportunity for fast food restaurants to grow and prosper. Fast food seems to become very common everywhere, although one positive aspect of fast food is that it is easy to prepare, it is available in many places and it is a hearty meal. But on the other hand, we can estimate that its negative aspects are more important and greater. I think it’s easy to understand that fast food is a phenomenon that is going to be accepted by people. We are going to see the process of disappearance of traditional culture with the development of fast food restaurants in all countries of the world.
How to fight addiction to fast food
The best example of the success of fast food in changing modern life is the invasion of the global food market by the giant fast food companies like McDonald’s, KFC and others. According to the McDonald`s website, McDonald’s has about 29,000 restaurants in 120 countries around the world, serving nearly 54 million customers every day. Just as it also indicates the fact of such a change in food preferences and even in the way of life itself. There is no doubt that fast food is changing the face of many nations and eating habits around the world right now. In summary, unfortunately, it is difficult to avoid these global changes that traditional food is going to be replaced by new foods that are common to all people in all countries of the world. But the good news is that recently there are some people and some movements trying to contrast the process of modern life and asking people to go back to their traditional food. To solve this problem we need restaurants that offer traditional food, and capable of attracting a large number of loyal customers. Parents should also teach their children to prepare and cook traditional food. Many people realize that traditional food is much better for our health, so they want to preserve it and prevent the culinary tradition from evaporating. There is enormous hope that people will preserve their customs and traditions of food preparation. The main obstacles are the modern lifestyle. Some people might say that it is difficult to preserve our traditional food because it takes a long time to prepare and people today cannot spend much time cooking. Other people, especially older people, might say that it is unfortunate to destroy culture and tradition. Those people might be right.
Conclusion
These days, people have more health problems that are related to new eating habits and fast food consumption. Despite some advantages of fast food, the harm caused by fast food does not outweigh its benefit. I think people should consider the downside of fast food consumption and the benefits of preparing your own food at home. It is unfair that we are going to replace the traditional food that comes from generation to generation with junk food that will harm us more than benefit us. It is unfortunate to lose the culinary tradition and eat homemade food prepared by our mothers together around the table. I am sure that we all need to reflect on this problem and try to find the right solution to save our cultures, our traditional foods and most importantly our health. Therefore, we must take immediate steps to preserve traditional food and encourage people to prepare their own dishes, so they can stay healthy and live longer. Although fast food is cheap, convenient, delicious, and available in every corner of our cities, that doesn’t mean our health is cheaper than the fast food we eat.