when did man start cooking his food? how long after he discovered fire and why?

Answer 1

Prehistoric Age
The origins of cooking are obscure. Primitive humans may first have savoured roast meat by chance, when the flesh of a beast killed in a forest fire was found to be more palatable and easier to chew and digest than the customary raw meat. They probably did not deliberately cook food, though, until long after they had learned to use fire for light and warmth.

9000 B.C. Plant cultivation begins in the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East. Sheep are domesticated in the Middle East. Mesoamerican (what is now Mexico and Central America) peoples begin domesticating plants --gourds, peppers, avocados, and a grain, amaranth

4,000 BC Egyptians used yeast as a leavening agent.
Onions, radishes and garlic were the mainstay of the diet of Egyptians who built the Great Pyramid at Gaze. This low-fat, pungent and highly aromatic diet obviously served as fuel for that mammoth project.

3,000 BC Farmers of Mesapotomia were growing crops of turnips, onions, broad beans, peas, lentils, leeks, radishes and maybe garlic. Probably breeding ducks at this time
The Chinese Emperor; Sung Loong Sze 'discovers' the medicinal properties of herbs Turkey from this era have been found in American Indian refuse sights

3,000 BC -- 1,000 AD
This was an active period for food development in the Roman Empire. The agricultural revolution during this period brought the shift to a largely grain diet. People became loyal to their land -- the first step toward nationalism.

2,000 BC Pomegranates are believed to have originated in Persia. Their skins were used to dye wool. The pomegranate was a fertility symbol in many ancient cultures, undoubtedly because it has so many seeds.

500 BC Sugar cane and bananas cultivated in India. Avocados were recorded in hieroglyphics by the Mayan Indians in southeastern Mexico and Central America. This highly developed civilization appreciated the many virtues of this tropical fruit, and they seemed to enjoy it in its natural state.

50 BC Apricot trees were first cultivated in China. From there, they made their way west to India, Armenia and Persia. Before the 13th century, they'd made their way to England, via Italy. Shakespeare probably enjoyed the fruit.

400 AD Pasta, the Italian word for dough, was probably introduced to Italy by Germanic tribes, who invaded throughout the 5th century. The German word for pasta -- nudel -- gave us the English word noodle.

1493 Columbus "discovered" pineapple on the West Indies island of Guadeloupe. The people there called pineapple nana, meaning fragrance. This lovely fruit wasn't introduced to Hawaii until centuries later.

1621 The first Thanksgiving Day was a harvest festival celebrated by the Pilgrims of Plymouth colony in 1621. After a devastating winter in 1620, they celebrated a successful harvest in 1621. The Pilgrims had 20 acres of corn, grown from seeds furnished by Indians.

1742 The first American cookbook was published -- "The Complete Housewife" or "Accomplish't Gentlewoman's Companion" by Eliza Smith. Its success led to a reprint in 1764.

1789 George Washington falls in love with ice cream at a dinner party hosted by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, who served the creamy frozen dessert. Did she serve cherry flavor?

Sept. 26, 1830 Col. Robert Gibbon Johnson dispels the common misconception that tomatoes are poisonous. He ate tomatoes publicly on the courthouse steps in Salem, New Jersey, on this date. Tomatoes were believed to be poisonous because they are in the nightshade family, some members of which are deadly.

March, 1850 Agoston Haraszthy, a legendary Hungarian also known as the "Father of California Viticulture," began to plant the first of his California vineyards. He had planted grapes in Wisconsin before that.

April, 1933 Repeal of The Volstead Act. The end of Prohibition launched the New Beer's Eve celebration. After 14 dry years, the US government was encouraging the drinking of a low-alcohol (3.2 percent) beer, and breweries had geared up for the occasion.

1945 -- 1965 Nouvelle cuisine was born in France, thanks to the Young Turk chefs. Expert chefs got together and agreed it was necessary to simplify French cooking to streamline the kitchen and appeal to modern tastes and health concerns.
1963 Julia Child's "The French Chef" series aired on WGBH-TV, the public television station in Boston. After that debut, her cooking shows were so successful, they were aired nationally.

October 28, 1996
The world celebrated the 150th anniversary of French Chef Auguste Escoffier's birth. He was called the King of Chefs and Chef of Kings.

Answer 2

Nothing to prove this theory, but I've heard that cooking was discovered mostly by accident. A bunch of cavemen were sitting around the fire eating their tough, tasteless raw meat, and one guy's slipped out of his hands and fell into the fire. He knew that he wasn't going to get another piece just because he carelessly let his fall into the fire, so he fished it out of the fire with a stick, cleaned it off as best he could, and ate it anyway...... He discovered to his surprise that it was far more tender and juicy, and actually had some flavor to it.

From then on, this guy actually started searing his portion of meat over the fire before eating it, and it eventually caught on with the others....

Answer 3

Heating meat can and does improve flavor. When???...I wasn't there so I have no idea. The 'Oops” theory is very popular. There you are hiding under a great Oak during a thunderstorm, and Wham a bolt of lightning blasts a flaming limb from the tree. Then you notice what looks like the remains of a critter that you have hunted before. Out of curiosity you take a taste and ...Mmm,not bad. You strive to duplicate the experience. In the process you reduce the parasites and improve the health of your friends and family.

Answer 4

Caveman started cooking food probably by accident such as others have already answered. Cavemen soon realized that cooked meat would keep longer than raw and the longer you cooked it-Jerky was invented. Which was great for taking on those long and dangerous hunting trips away from the little woman.

Answer 5

The earliest evidence for the use of fire comes from a site which is about a million years old. The earliest known cooking was done about 43,000 years ago. It seems incomprehensible to us that man should have had fire for thousands of years before he ever came to use it for cooking. It may seem equally incomprehensible to future generations that man learned how to improve plants and animals thousands of years before he began to use this knowledge so as to improve himself.

Answer 6

Not man, but women discovered fire first from coming in contact with a dragon in China. After fire was discovered coming out of the dragons mouth, things got very hectic and pretty dangerous. This was so long ago, even the freezer didn't exist nor pizzas, no, not even jelly beans or goonie bears.

Answer 7

man may have grabbed the burning log after the lightning or volcano, but WOMAN started cooking the food...20 kya or so ago--dried food lasts longer and there was less disease from it...so the earliest cooking probably mimicked what they did in the sun when they didn't have fire

Answer 8

I've been told that it happened when a fire burned down a pig shed. A bloke touched the burned remains of a pig and said "owch" as it was hot, and he pulled his finger back and put it into his mouth to cool it. Whereupon he found it tasted really nice, and realised this must be a good way to prepare pig for eating.

So whenever he and his tribe wanted this nice flavour of pig for their meals they would build and then burn down a pig shed for the purpose.

Answer 9

I cant answer that but I can tell you why he got women. To cook for him lol

Answer 10

I don't know, my man never cooks his food.

Answer 11

i would guess some food fell in the fire and it tasted good.