The three major cooking styles are, Chinese, Italian, and French. The Chinese have the oldest, purest and perhaps the most sophisticated style. Chinese cookery is basically quick cooking and best known for the unique-shaped frying pan called the wok. The wok is designed in a way to circulate heat quickly and evenly while keeping its contents in constant motion. A sauce can easily be made with the ingredients, again, to conserve fuel.
Chinese food is light, fresh, has variety, and many flavors, colors, and aromas.
Chinese cookery can be found in Japan, areas of Hawaii, and in the western Malay Archipelago. Due to Italy's careless practice of deforestation, Italian cookery faced the same problem as the Chinese which was shortage of fuel. The path towards haute cuisine in Italian cooking was born during the Renaissance, producing the first truly modern European cuisine. The M dicis, along with their crowd of Florentine cooks, bakers, and confectioners, and the advanced kitchen equipment altered the course of French cooking and set the standard for all Western cuisines.