World cuisines

It's a well-known fact that every country on Earth has its own peculiar and unique culture: art, literature, history, traditions etc. In fact, any person who has ever travelled to another country for a reason other than recreation or business has actually done it because they were curious about the country's culture. And such curiosity has been proven to be a part of an individual character, because we always strive for new discoveries, want to find out something new, something exciting, something that doesn't exist in our homeland. This type of behaviour has actually been partially the reason for prosperity or at least well-being of some cities and even countries that are world-famous for their historical, natural or other places of interest, like the pyramids in Egypt, the Great Wall in China, the Niagara Falls in the United States and so on. And one of the constituent parts of a country's culture is of course its cuisine, a specific set of cooking traditions, which in most cases is influenced by the traditions of preparing food, as well as by the ingredients that are present in the country. It should be noted that many countries' cuisines are also greatly influenced not only by secular traditions, but by religion as well, for example in Israel, where the religion forbids eating pork, or in India, where the religious traditions do not encourage eating meat at all, so Indian cooking traditions and practices are usually of a vegetarian character. The whole practice of preparing food of a certain country observing all the rules and practices has become an art today.

With the introduction of so called 'progressive', 'modern' technologies of preparing large quantities of food for the rapidly developing world with such consequences as 'junk food', 'fast food' (the most common image is a hamburger from a fast food restaurant) there is actually a process of neglect of skills and methods of the culinary art that's been accumulated by centuries-long practices. True culinary art is based on learning the experience acquired in the past, that's why there's no need today to "invent" and "make up" anything in cookery. Instead, it would be right to carefully collect, restore and preserve everything that the culinary art and practice has achieved for centuries. Not to loose the experience of the past is the major goal of the modern cookery.