10 Delicious Cooking Facts

Title: 10 Delicious Cooking Facts 1. In ancient Greece, the word for “cook“ and “priest,“ was the same: mageiros, which shares its etymological root with the word “magic.“ 2. Smoke, chiefly from indoor cooking fires, kills about 1.5 million people every year in the developing world. 3. In 17th century Europe, professional chefs in rich households were mainly men. They often worked naked or in undergarments on account of the intense heat of the kitchens. 4. The oldest type of soup dates from about 6,000 BC. The recipe calls for sparrow and hippopotamus meat. 5. The fear of cooking is a recognized phobia and is called “mageirocophobia.“ 6. The largest item ever found on a menu is stuffed camel. A whole camel is stuffed with a couple of lambs, 20 whole chickens, and 60 eggs, just to name a few ingredients. 7. Because cooking led to a more energy-dense and easy-to-digest die