The term “cooking” encompasses a wide variety of methods, tools, and combinations of ingredients for creating flavor and digesting food. A cooking technique, known as gastronomy, generally requires the selection, measurement, and combination of ingredients in a controlled procedure in an attempt to achieve the desired result. Constraints to success include the variety of ingredients, surroundings, tools, and skill of the individual cook. The diversity of cooking around the world is a reflection of the many dietary, technical, agricultural, economic, cultural and religious considerations that influence it. Cooking requires the application of heat to food which usually chemically transforms it and changes its flavour, texture, appearance and nutritional properties. There is archaeological evidence that Neanderthals used to cook their food with fire, which is the most important thing discovered by Neanderthals. The culture of cooking food and cuisine differs from one country to another and from one culture to another, and each kitchen has its own specificity. Nowadays, due to modern life changing everything around us and affecting our lifestyle and eating habits, people are less preparing their food. Eating habits tend to unite people from different societies. Food production and eating process get new characteristics. It seems that the food available around us is very different from the food we are used to eating.
Eating habits and modern life
Everything works at high speed, people do not have time to cook, they do not have the desire and patience to stay longer in the kitchen, they do not have the desire to prepare their own food. The old generation still prefers to cook their own food unlike the young people who prefer to eat fast food because they do not want to spend a long time in cooking and want to cook. Modern life shapes our eating habits and makes us like a slave who follows his own pace. It is not difficult to find a fast food restaurant everywhere and on 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. Also, many nutritionists from different countries have already declared the epidemiological nature of fast food. The rapid process of globalization and modern life is affecting our eating habits and giving the opportunity for fast food restaurants to grow and thrive. It seems that fast food has become very popular everywhere, although some of the positive aspects of fast food are easy to prepare, available in many places, and are a basic meal. But on the other hand, we can appreciate that its negative aspects are more significant and greater. I think it’s easy to understand that fast food is a phenomenon that people will accept. We will see the process of disappearing traditional culture with the development of fast food restaurants in all countries around the world.
How to fight fast food addiction
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 company such as McDonald’s, KFC and others. According to the McDonald’s website, McDonald’s has about 29,000 restaurants in 120 countries worldwide, serving approximately 54 million customers daily. In addition, it refers to the fact of this change in eating preferences and even in the way of life itself. There is no doubt that fast food is now changing the face of many countries and eating habits around the world. In short, unfortunately, it is so difficult to prevent these global changes that traditional food will be replaced by new foods that are common to all people in all countries around the world. But the good news is that, recently, there have been some people and some movements that are trying to compare the process of modern life and asking people to go back to their traditional food. To solve this problem, we need restaurants that serve traditional cuisine, and are able to attract a large number of loyal customers. Parents should also teach their children how to prepare and cook traditional food. Many people are discovering that traditional food is much better for our health, so they want to preserve and preserve cooking traditions from evaporation. There is great hope for the people to preserve their customs and traditions in preparing food. The main obstacles are the modern lifestyle. Some people may say that our traditional food is difficult to maintain because it takes a long time to prepare and today people cannot spend much time in cooking. Other people, especially the elderly, may say that it is a pity to destroy culture and traditions. These people may be right.
Conclusion
These days, people have more health problems related to new food habits and consumption of fast food. Despite some advantages of fast food, the harm caused by fast food does not outweigh its benefits. I think people should consider the negative fact of consuming fast food and the benefits of preparing their own food at home. It is not fair that the traditional food that reaches us from generation to generation will be replaced by unhealthy foods that will do us more harm than good. It is unfortunate that we are losing the traditions of cooking and eating homemade food that our mothers prepared together around the table. I am sure we should all think about this problem and try to find the right solution to save our cultures, traditional foods and most importantly our health. So we must take immediate action to preserve traditional food and encourage people to prepare their own dishes, so that they can stay healthy and live longer. Although fast food is cheap, convenient, tasty and available in every corner of our cities, this does not mean that our health is cheaper than the fast food we eat.
