Review of the Origins of Cooking and Food Preservation Methods

Abstract

A short story about the cooking and preservation of food allows us to remember some of the principal preservation methods currently in use, some of them since thousands of years ago. The importance of fire discovery is emphasized, not only as the cooking starter but also as part of the first preservation methods, as smoking and drying. The use of natural sources lead to new methods, as salting. Modern technologies were developed through time, making the food last longer in order to try to feed more than seven billion people on earth.