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The techniques, customs and practices around food that are not themselves dishes or ingredients: how food is made, preserved, served and shared. Grouped into food production and processing traditions, social and ceremonial dining customs, and dietary law and religious food practice. Belongs here: a named practice or custom (Fermentation, Tea Ceremony, Kashrut). Does not belong here: the dish, drink or ingredient a tradition produces, which is its own entity, or the full religious or legal content of a dietary law, which is Divinity's subject; this atlas describes only the practice's culinary facet.
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1. Food Preservation (Wikipedia)
WikipediaFood preservation, Curing section, earliest drying practice (food tradition category)Quote, Food preservation, Curing section, earliest drying practice (food tradition category)
The earliest form of curing is drying, which has been in use since ancient times, the earliest known practice dates back to 12,000 B.C. by inhabitants of the modern Asian and Middle Eastern regions.
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