Dr. Anupam Manhas, Associate Professor Department of Law, School of Legal Studies and Governance, Career Point University, Hamirpur 176041-India.
Introduction
For the life of humans food is one of the basic requirements. In past wars were fought for survival. In prehistoric days cavemen killed animals for getting food and this lead to the discovery of stone and crude tools of hunt. This was the time when an accidental discovery of fire totally changed the way of eating. At present we can only guess how the first cooked food evolved. Maybe one day some piece of meat or other food item accidently landed in fire and it tasted good; or a whole animal must have fell into a fire and got char grilled accidently to create the first barbecue of the world.1 Cavemen old pictures also depict about the roasted animals. Even this day the cuisine of nomads and tribes is essentially whole spit roasted.2 It was between 10,000 B.C and 3000 B.C when the masses of Middle East, Southeast Asia, and other areas of Asia including Europe and Africa went under the early revolution called agriculture. The free flow of food items paved the way of new era of Food and food related items.3 Emperor’s cuisine of China, royal cuisine of Thailand, Kosher laws of Jews and many others throughout the world have been segregated according to social status and caste of the people.4 Cooking was limited to home during the old days, where women used to cook food for a joint family. Grand buffet system hosted by royal and rich kings set to contest and innovation in cooking food.
