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The process of applying heat to food, leveraging the energy inherent in the food's structure and patterns to transform it into a new state, thereby altering its capacity to do work and manifest change in a physical system.
External reference — all senses of the word “cook” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.