Perhaps it was a chicken curry, or a delicious chocolate cake, or pasta with tomato sauce?
These dishes raise many questions about food. What is it about certain foods that makes them so delicious? Why is Indian food so spicy? Why do some people like spicy food while others don’t? Why do so many people like chocolate?
How is it that Italian food often contains tomatoes, a plant from South America? Why is rice the staple food for half the people on the planet? All the three dishes that listed are prepared by cooking: when did cooking start?
How did variation in cuisine originate? Why do we like some foods and not
others? Are people in different parts of the world born with different kinds of taste preferences? Do people simply depend on the food that can be found
locally? Do we learn to like what we are given as children and avoid the
unfamiliar? Are our preferences a result of cultural or religious traditions?
