Nowadays , food is served in buffet style during large gathering.
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In the past, preparing of food was a little hard. The most important reason was lack of material, although, this limitation there is no exists today. Foods are always important for human's life. The advances in technology causes we have a chance to prepare our food easily. These progresses in some way improve our life, so I explain some of these advantages.
First of all, today, we can find every fruits, vegetables and every material that we need for cooking every time. For example, in the past, we had some fruits like oranges, apples just in fall, but now we can buy them in every season. Consequently, we can use these vegetables or fruits in our nourish. Secondly, foods or fruits are saved in refrigerator, so every time that we need them easily put them off from refrigerator and use them. For example, when we do not have enough time for cooking, we can use saved food.
In addition, cooking today is easier than the past. Today we can use some device like oven or microwave for cooking. These entire devices prepare food very quickly and healthy, so our time is saved and we have more time for other activities. For example, we can have hot milk in just ten seconds if we use microwave.
Finally, all food's material are bought has some especial label such as diet, how much sugar or salt it has and so on. All these kind of label help people to choose the best foods or material that fit with their body or their condition. For example people who want lose their extra weight, most of the time look for foods with diet label.
To sum up, the changes of preparing of food, help to saving time, help to be healthier. And also variety of foods that we have today increase our choose to find the best nourish.