A prescription is a document that allows the purchase of medicines at a pharmacy.
The concept of recipe has its origin in the Latin recepta and has two broad meanings: on the one hand, it is used by doctors and patients to refer to the prescription of medications and, on the other hand, in gastronomy it represents the steps to follow to reproduce a certain dish.
The medical prescription consists of an optional indication that the health professional leaves in writing as a record and reference for the acquisition of medications. It is a standardized document that the doctor develops when he must recommend a remedy so that the patient can obtain it in a pharmacy.
The medical prescription
To prepare the prescription, the medical professional has legal authorization. The medical prescription, in this way, guarantees that the drugs included in the medications are used only for therapeutic purposes.
Generally, this type of prescription is structured in two parts: the first, which must be delivered to the pharmacist, is the body, while the second is the instruction leaflet intended for the patient , where the doctor describes how the drugs should be ingested. medications (every how many hours, what is the maximum allowed per day, how to act against potential side effects, etc.).
The concept in the culinary field
As for cooking recipes, it can be said that they are those that explain what ingredients a meal includes and how it should be prepared. The recipes indicate the appropriate procedure so that the dish in question can be recreated with the same results. It can also provide tips for enhancing flavor, tips for avoiding overcooking, and various ideas for the final presentation.
Cooking recipes are usually collected in books and, currently, on Internet pages. It is also common for them to be transmitted from generation to generation at the family level.
In the field of gastronomy, the instructions that explain how a dish should be prepared are called a recipe.
The different faces of certain recipes
In very nationalistic countries that are proud of their cuisine, as is the case of Spain, it is very common for football to not be the only topic of discussion and confrontation between the different regions. The fight to get a certain recipe to be the heritage of one province or another is as laughable as it is true .
Without a doubt, the case of paella is the most controversial. This dish, which has countless forms, enjoys international fame and many tourists visit the country looking to taste the real thing . However, this culinary delight turns out to be the specialty of Valencia, as well as that of Seville and Tarragona, to name some of the areas in which it is assured that its recipe is unsurpassed.
On the other hand, in countries like Argentina, where many cultures have coexisted for decades, the recipes inherited from immigrants have undergone various modifications with respect to the originals, either due to the natural loss of information that occurs when transmitted by word of mouth , or because the foreign person did not know it perfectly when teaching it.
Given that this country has a large number of people originally from Italy and their descendants, pizzas, pasta and ice cream are three of the cases in which the most inconsistencies occur between the European and Argentine versions.
Neapolitan pizza is one of those cases; In Argentina, that name is known as the one that, apart from the mozzarella cheese , presents slices of tomato, which are lightly cooked at the end of preparation. In Italy, although there are also different positions and versions, many defend that the true recipe has tomato in sauce and basil, which is not a mere condiment but an essential part of said pizza.
A procedure
Finally, it should be noted that a recipe is called a procedure that, at a general level, makes it possible for a person to achieve something.
"My father believes he has the recipe for success in business" is an example of this use of the concept.