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Origin region names the place a cooking technique first came from. Wikipedia records that sous vide was "invented by the French chef Georges Pralus in 1974," tying the technique firmly to France even though it is now used worldwide. This dimension shows which regions have produced the most widely adopted cooking methods.

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300,000 BCE 1
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1. Cooking (Wikipedia)
Cooking, History section, archaeological evidence of cooking fires (dry-heat methods)
Quote, Cooking, History section, archaeological evidence of cooking fires (dry-heat methods)
Archaeological evidence of cooking fires dates to at least 300,000 years ago, but some estimate that humans started cooking as early as 2 million years ago.
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