Programme- BHM Course - Foreign Cuisine- Cuisine of China-I,II Course Code- BHMN-414-5 Sem- 7th sem Year- 2020-21 Unit- 1 (Part-1) Topic- Cuisine of China - Sub-Topic- Introduction to Chinese Cuisine, Geographical Perspectives, Brief Historical Background, Regions & Regional Cooking Styles food with regional Influences, Popular Foods, Key Ingredients, Special Equipments Faculty- Sushant sharma E-mail-
[email protected] Cuisine of China-I Introduction & Brief Historical Background: The cuisine of china is marked by the by the precise skills of shaping, heating, color way and flavouring. Chinese cuisine is also known for its width of cooking methods and ingredients as well as food therapy influenced by traditional Chinese medicine. China is an ancient civilisation and Chinese cuisine developed with it through its 5,000 years of recorded history. It can safely be assumed that in the remote, primitive beginnings of mankind’s existence, our ancestors across the face of the earth all led a life eating what has been described as ‘raw meat with fur and blood’. There was no such thing as cooking until much later, when fire was discovered, and food was then ‘cooked’, although without any seasonings to speak of. So it was many, many millennia later that cultivated plants and domesticated animals began to provide the bulk foodstuff for people, and the gathering of wild fruits, nuts, berries and other edible materials as supplements to the human diet became commonplace. Only then was a different ‘food culture’ said to have been created, with regional variations, which was based on the natural distribution of plants and animals from area to area.