Food preparation at the Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, Washington state The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the preparation of food:
Food preparation is an art form and applied science that includes techniques like cooking to make ingredients fit for consumption and/or palatable.
Essence of food preparation
The process of food preparation includes selecting the ingredients needed and correctly handling ingredients to produce the components of a meal.
- Art – an art, one of the arts, is a creative endeavor or discipline.
- Culinary art – art of preparing and cooking foods.
- Skill – learned capacity to carry out pre-determined results often with the minimum outlay of time, energy, or both.
- Meal preparation – the process of planning meals.
General food preparation concepts
Preserved food - Chef – a person who cooks professionally for other people. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who cooks for a living, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation.
- Cookbook
- Cooking – act of preparing food for eating. It encompasses a vast range of methods, tools and combinations of ingredients to improve the flavour or digestibility of food. It generally requires the selection, measurement and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure in an effort to achieve the desired result.
- Cooking oil
- Cooking weights and measures – includes conversions and equivalences common in cooking.
- Cuisine – specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture. It is often named after the region or place where its underlying culture is present. A cuisine is primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade.
- Eating
- Flavor
- Food is anything solid or liquid which when swallowed, digested and assimilated in the body provides it with essential substances called nutrients and keeps it well. It is the basic necessity of life. Food supplies energy, enables growth and repair of tissues and organs.
- Food and cooking hygiene
- Foodborne illness
- Food preservation
- Ingredients
- International food terms – useful when reading about food and recipes from different countries.
- Recipe
- Restaurant
- Staple food – a food that is "eaten regularly and in such quantities as to constitute the dominant part of the diet and supply a major proportion of energy and nutrient needs".[1]
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