Kitchen and Cooking

The term "kitchen" has important implications, including practices and traditions in the kitchen and the general preparation of food and beverages. These practices and traditions are usually in a geographical region, and strongly influenced by other ingredients in this region, as well as by cultural habits (like religion). Use of chopsticks in the Far East, for example (also in line with the Confucian doctrine has requested)that the food served before they are cut into bite-sized portions. New technologies have also come into play in regional cuisine. New methods of production, storage, transportation, etc. coupled with increasing cultural interaction through immigration and travel restrictions lifted many of the old kitchen.

"Ethnic" food often depends on the supply of fresh ingredients from distant lands and has only recently been made possible by faster and cheaperBetter transport and storage, and other factors. The existence of foreign cuisine with local products allows the creation of new courts by the experiments of chefs. The kitchen is, for all these reasons, culturally important in many ways and is often associated with wine growing. Italian and French cuisine is very popular worldwide for its diversity and quality of its products.