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Seasoning is the process of adding salt, herbs, or spices to food to enhance the flavor.

General meaning.

A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring, coloring or preserving food.

Spices are distinguished from herbs, which are the leaves, flowers, or stems from plants used for flavoring or as a garnish.

Sometimes, spices may be ground into a powder for convenience.

Many spices have antimicrobial properties.

This may explain why spices are more commonly used in warmer climates, which have more infectious diseases, and why the use of spices is prominent in meat, which is particularly susceptible to spoiling.

Spices are sometimes used in medicine, religious rituals, cosmetics or perfume production, or as a vegetable.

A recipe is a set of instructions that describes how to prepare or make something, especially a culinary dish.

It is also used in medicine or in information technology (user acceptance).

A doctor will usually begin a prescription with recipe, Latin for take, usually abbreviated to Rx or an equivalent symbol.

Cooking or cookery is the art, technology and craft of preparing food for consumption with the use of heat.

Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions and trends.

The ways or types of cooking also depend on the skill and type of training an individual cook has.

Cooking is done both by people in their own dwellings and by professional cooks and chefs in restaurants and other food establishments.

Cooking can also occur through chemical reactions without the presence of heat, such as in ceviche, a traditional South American dish where fish is cooked with the acids in lemon or lime juice.

A cuisine (from French, in turn from Latin coquere "to cook") is a style of cooking characterized by distinctive ingredients, techniques and dishes, and usually associated with a specific culture or geographic region.

A cuisine is primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade.

Religious food laws, such as Hindu, Islamic and Jewish dietary laws, can also exercise a strong influence on cuisine.

Regional food preparation traditions, customs and ingredients often combine to create dishes unique to a particular region.