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  • The Thresher on Random Most Historically Important Food Innovations

    (#12) The Thresher

    Way back when, farmers had to harvest crops by hand, which would take a long time and was sometimes needlessly wasteful. Then, Andrew Meikle, a Scottish engineer, created this contraption that could harvest crops for you in the 1780s. This meant that grains, in particular, could be harvested, separated from the chaff, and prepped for use much sooner and more efficiently than when it was done by hand. The grain industry and our health have flourished with the help of these threshing machines. 
  • Selective Breeding on Random Most Historically Important Food Innovations

    (#17) Selective Breeding

    If you have a kitty or puppy, you have selective breeding to thank for that. Selective breeding, or artificial selection, happens when we as humans choose which animals or plants will be bred together in order to achieve a certain trait. In the food world, this is vital to farmers. They will breed together livestock that best survives in their climate, or that have a longer lifespan, or that have a tastier meat. They will grow plants that give a higher yield, weeding out those that do not so that they don't contaminate the healthier, more useful plants. We've been doing this for over 15,000 years, starting with dogs that we wanted to domesticate. 
  • Food Markets on Random Most Historically Important Food Innovations

    (#18) Food Markets

    Grocery stores may not seem innovative, but their impact on cooking worldwide has been profound. Stationary food markets (as opposed to traveling traders) allowed people to cook with things they could not grow themselves. They did not have to get things in bulk unless desired, and this lead to experimentation with new crops, new dishes, and new styles of cuisine. This was especially important with spices. We have recipe diversity worldwide because of markets, and though we don't know when the first ones were started, we do know that we still use them all over the globe. 
  • The Oven on Random Most Historically Important Food Innovations

    (#6) The Oven

    If cooking with fire was a major step, the next logical step was the oven. This innovation, which dates back to over 6,500 years ago, used heat from a fire to cook food uniformly. This meant we could make things like bread and pastries, and also meant we could better cook meat and produce. Ovens also often heated the home, meaning that they had multiple uses in keeping our diets healthy and our dwellings warm. 
  • The Use of Salt on Random Most Historically Important Food Innovations

    (#4) The Use of Salt

    Dating back as far as 6050 BC, the use of salt in cooking and food preservation has had a massive impact on our world. Salt is necessary to the human diet and being able to add it to food made us healthier as a species. Not to mention it can be used to dry and preserve food for later consumption, which helps prevent people from going hungry. It's no wonder that wars have been fought over this food, and we have China to thank for our modern methods of salt extraction.
  • Irrigation on Random Most Historically Important Food Innovations

    (#3) Irrigation

    This is one innovation we have to give credit to the Egyptians for. They first irrigated crops back in 6000 BC, using floodwater as a means of watering plants at preferred times. Irrigation evolved from there; we can see the improvements in our agricultural industry. Irrigation meant that we could grow crops all year long, so we were better fed and healthier for longer. Not to mention, this kind of farming became a major industry we're still relying on today. 

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Cooking can be said to be another difference between humans and animals. Humans will process food to make food taste better, more delicious, and easier to absorb nutrients. So what is the most meaningful innovation in the history of human cooking? In the development of human civilization, those innovations have made great contributions to the progress of human society. Do you think it is an oven or a wok? Or is it chopsticks or knife and fork?

Diving back to prehistoric times, people already know cooking with fire, and now our convenient and effective life benefits from these meaningful food innovations. There are random 19 well-known food innovations all over the world, all recorded in this random tool. We use refrigeration, salt, sugar every day, but maybe never know their discovery process.

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