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December 30, 2016
Q. As you cook your holiday turkey, did you ever stop to wonder what if you didn't? What's the point of cooking?
A. ”All cultures from the Inuit of the frozen Arctic to the hunter-gatherers of sub-Saharan Africa are sustained by food that has been chemically and physically transformed by heat,” as taken from New Scientist magazine's book “The Origin of (Almost) Everything.” Cooking was an incredible invention, and as primatologist Richard Wrangham argues, without it the body of Homo sapiens couldn't exist.
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