Food and drink

thumb|upright=1.35|Display of various foods|alt=Table set with red meat, bread, pasta, vegetables, fruit, fish, and beans

thumb|upright=1.2|Tea is the secondmostconsumed drink in the world, after water.

thumb|288px|Amandines de Provence, poster by Leonetto Cappiello, 1900, which shows a woman eating almond cookies

thumb|right|250px|A recipe in a cookbook for pancakes with the prepared ingredients A recipe is a set of instructions that lists the ingredients and steps needed to prepare a specific dish or meal. A sub-recipe or subrecipe is a recipe for an ingredient that will be called for in the instructions for the main recipe. Recipe books (also called cookbooks or cookery books) are a collection of recipes, help reflect cultural identities and social changes as well as serve as educational tools.

thumb|Statue drinking from a traditional waterskin|alt=Statue of a man drinking|upright=1.2 thumb|upright|A person drinking a glass of milk

food eaten by Homo sapiens

set of artistic practices using food as a creative material

thumb|A Number of the Best Edible Fungi, illustration from The Encyclopedia of Food by Artemas Ward (writer)|Artemas Ward, 1923