The capacity to control fire and ice in order to cook and preserve food aided mankind in the development of new technologies and advancements.¹⁾

Every year, smoke, primarily from indoor cooking fires, kills around 1.5 million people in the poor countries.²⁾

Women have historically been the most exposed to the hazards of cooking, particularly because they frequently wore billowing skirts and long sleeves over open flames.³⁾

Cooking with fire or heat is an exclusively human activity. While archeological evidence for cooking dates back only 1 million years.⁴⁾

The industrial revolution forever altered cooking. Food could be mass-produced, standardized, and mass-marketed.⁵⁾

Kitchens, according to historians, are a hotbed of violence. People are frequently burnt, disfigured, frozen, and, in particular, cut.⁶⁾

Grilling food may increase the risk of cancer. Charred meat can harm DNA and genetic material, causing mutations that lead to cancer.⁷⁾

A chef is generally dressed in white since the chef of France's first prime minister (1815) felt that white was the most sanitary of all colors.⁸⁾

When the Byzantine Empire invaded Greece in 146 BC, Greek cooks fled to surrounding monasteries and dressed like monks, donning huge stove-top hats.⁹⁾

The pleats of a chef's hat not only convey a sense of fashion and professionalism, but they also traditionally indicated the number of recipes a cook had learned. As a result, a cook with 100 pleats may have learned 100 distinct methods to boil an egg.¹⁰⁾

The taller the chef's cap, the more important or knowledgeable a cook was historically. Most chef hats today are 9-12 inches tall.¹¹⁾

Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.¹²⁾

Fast food's popularity and the lack of cooking have harmed family meals and raised obesity rates.¹³⁾

Eating bugs (also known as entomophagy) is the standard across the world. They are consumed for their high protein content, enticing crunchiness, and flavor.¹⁴⁾

Prior to the invention of cookware approximately 24,000 BC, people depended on foraged shells or animal pieces to preserve and transport food.¹⁵⁾