Food: What It Is and Does. E-book. Formato PDF - 9780243614349

Production of food and food-preparation are among the oldest occupations of human life. They are still most essential to human well-being. Cultivation and cooking of food have come down the ages into complex activities highly specialized and associated with concentrated commercial interests. Together these are coming under the direction of science and the regulation of the community. Occupation with the needs created by living, is a common human pursuit, practiced with or without purpose or plan. Any continua tion of life necessitates work. Advancing life requires intelligent work that includes the study of how to live constructively. That this may be, the study of food in school is now generally advised by all prepared to see its bearing upon both wholesome life and efficient work, and also how the understanding cooperation of humanity is needed in supplying and selecting what is of use for growth and health. Civilization, in whatever stage it is at the time, is the environ ment into which each generation comes. But what the environment becomes in its supplies and practices is determined by humanity as it lives. Experience served as a guide to action until Science was born. Together Experience and Science inform humanity and can be forming to its environment, upon which its physical nurture depends. The learner responds to the active aspects of learning with under standing. Personal experience in activity carries one not only into seeing facts but also into knowing their meaning. Cookery in its actual practice in choosing, combining, preparing food makes food knowledge center in nourishment, in which its real significance lies.