Culinary Techniques

Directions: Choose the most correct answer based on the given reading. Cooking food by the application of steam is called?

Food Facts: Different parts of the world have their own local cuisine. The diets and general food habits of various cultures depend on social, religious, economic and safety factors as well as the availability of different foods. Examples of food and cuisine that are popular or famous in certain areas of the world include hummus in the Middle East, apple pie in the USA, raw fish in Japan, cheese in France, roast meat and vegetables in England, curry in India and tortillas in Mexico. Pumpkins are usually labelled as vegetables but they contain seeds and are technically fruit. India is the world’s largest producer of bananas, producing nearly 22 million tons in 2007. Humans use many different methods for gathering food which include farming, hunting, gardening, foraging and fishing. Humans eat meat from a number of different animals, common examples include meat from chickens, cows, sheep and pigs. Other food products that come from animals include milk, eggs and honey. Although humans are omnivores (eating both plants and animals), many people choose not to eat meat and fish, they are known as vegetarians. Those who don’t eat or use any products made from animals (including eggs, dairy products and honey) are known as vegans. Cooking is an important part of food preparation that involves applying heat. In most cases this transforms the chemical make-up of food, altering its texture, flavor, nutritional properties and appearance. The types of equipment used in the cooking process include ovens, microwaves, toasters, grills, pots and frying pans. Various cooking methods include boiling, simmering, steaming, sautéing, pan frying and deep-frying.

What according to the author is the secret of enthralling engagements?

Directions: Answer the question based on the following passage.

The best thing that happens when you learn cooking is that the results can be seen within a short period of time as against having to wait for five years or more to find out if you are going to be a lousy lawyer or doctor. Human beings traditionally have not been blessed with great amounts of patience and waiting often turns out to be hardest part of any process, even if the waiting for results part is just a small part of the overall process of ideation, conception, feasibility, initiation and conclusion. Cooking beans is a much more enjoyable and watch-worthy process for most humans than the process of sowing, growing and harvesting them. One could be mistaken for thinking that the entire human race is infected with the Attention Deficit Disorder because of the transient and ephemeral nature of our attention. With so many distractions and delusions that we find ourselves afflicted with, it is not surprising that only something that threatens to fall apart upon us is able to keep us riveted. Food, more specifically, the process of preparing it - specifically for a recent initiate into the arcane world of culinary skills, gives that edge of the seat excitement, that suspense of a Wilbur Smith thriller and that strange mixture of anticipation and dread that threatens to blow us away even while keeping us glued to our seats. Of course, there is a certain amount of ego involved also, as with anything else in life, when we want to prove ourselves better than the best in all walks of life that we choose to walk upon. The difference between a long drawn project and something that will fructify or explode in one’s face (depending upon one’s perspective) in a relatively shorter period of time is mainly of the credibility diffusion and dispersion that the behemoth project offers, where it becomes easy to blame other extraneous factors for a lack of desired outcomes. Given the reasoning in the previous sentence, one would be justified in thinking that because an enterprise offers more avenues of hegira, a vast multitude would be more interested in the pursuit of grandness of scale but when both options are weighed for their pros and cons, attention disorder syndrome wins out because frame-for-frame, it offers more potshots at pursuit of perfection and food, after all, is a deliciously enticing offering.