It’s dinnertime, and delicious smells are drifting through the air.
Some foods you can simply pick and eat, like a peach. Other foods need to be cooked for hours over a hot fire. People in different cultures have discovered many tasty ways to prepare their food. Dinner might be served raw, fried, boiled, or grilled indoors or outdoors.
Tonight, you’re having fish and vegetables. How do you like them? Raw, boiled, fried, baked, grilled, stir-fried, roasted, or stewed?
In China, Wang Kow watches as his mother pours peanut oil into a deep, round frying pan called a wok. When the oil is hot, she adds meat and vegetables and tosses them as they cook. She is stir-frying the food.
Alex helps his father turn the steaks and sausages on their garden grill in Sydney, Australia. They’re having a cookout.
We often cook food to make it taste better. Cooking meat also make it safer to eat. Vegetables are cooked to make them softer. Dough is baked to make cakes, biscuits, and bread. Soups are simmered to blend the flavours of their ingredients together.
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