The capacity to control fire and ice in order to cook and preserve food aided mankind in the development of new technologies and advancements.¹⁾

Every year, smoke, primarily from indoor cooking fires, kills around 1.5 million people in the poor countries.²⁾

Women have historically been the most exposed to the hazards of cooking, particularly because they frequently wore billowing skirts and long sleeves over open flames.³⁾

Cooking with fire or heat is an exclusively human activity. While archeological evidence for cooking dates back only 1 million years.⁴⁾

The industrial revolution forever altered cooking. Food could be mass-produced, standardized, and mass-marketed.⁵⁾

Kitchens, according to historians, are a hotbed of violence. People are frequently burnt, disfigured, frozen, and, in particular, cut.⁶⁾