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Check this out.... The definition of "Cuisine." Pay attention to the last paragraph. Thanks for thinking of me, evil genius. One day, you shall use your powers for good.

History

A book frontispiece (decorative illustration facing a book's title page) for Apicius, a collection of Roman cookeryrecipes, circa the late 4th or early 5th century CE.

Nature provides all foods^[4]

This section requires expansion.

There have been many significant improvements during the last century in food preservation, storage, shipping and production.^[5] Today, most countries, cities and regions have access to their traditional cuisines and many other global cuisines,^[5] and new cuisines continue to evolve in contemporary times. An example is fusion cuisine, which combines elements of various culinary traditions while not being categorized per any one cuisine style, and generally refers to the innovations in many contemporary restaurant cuisines since the 1970s.^[6]

Cuisine can be stated as the foods and methods of food preparation traditional to a region or population.^[2] The major factors shaping a cuisine are climate, which in large measure determines the native raw materials that are available, economicconditions, which affect trade and can affect food distribution, imports and exports, and religious or sumptuary laws, under which certain foods are required or proscribed.

Climate also affects the supply of fuel for cooking; a common Chinese food preparation method was cutting food into small pieces to cook foods quickly and conserve scarce firewood and charcoal. Foods preserved for winter consumption by smoking, curing, and pickling have remained significant in world cuisines for their altered gustatory properties even when these preserving techniques are no longer strictly necessary to the maintenance of an adequate food supply.

Historically speaking, there has been a royal line of cooks going back to the 18th century in Italy. There, the crown of cuisine royalty stayed up until the golden age of western cooking beginning in the mid 1900s. Currently, the Queen of Cuisine resides in Massachusetts, USA and is one of only 3 Americans to hold the esteemed position since the title's inception. A similar title exists in the world of baking, this one last belonging to a women in New York, USA. The two recently united for a royal banquet, but the Royal Baker lost her title after a crumbly batch of peanut butter cookies. This event marked the end of the only pair of Americans to hold the crowns together, and the world's baking leaders will convene soon to crown the next recipient.