"the cooking apes"

My daughter pointed me to this review: ‘Catching Fire’ by Richard Wrangham and I shall be very interested to hear the impressions of others on this!

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  1. What a fascinating hypothesis; I'm still coming to terms with all the ramifications beyond those to do with our biology. As someone who teaches a mens' cooking class, am I trying to back the circle/cycle up a little? I would love to read more.

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  2. We as humans have the ability to cook food, but also the free will and choice to eat raw. Balance, right? Baking blows my mind but I also bask in the sheer simplicity of freshly picked fruit off the tree. How lucky we are that we get to choose both!

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  3. Ironically, this book has been on my "to read" list for a while, but I forgot about it in my recent upheaval. I also have a leftover Barnes and Noble gift card from Xmas that I can use.

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  4. I know for many anorexics there's a strong aversion to cooked food. I'd always assumed it was the avoidance of feeling full/avoiding heavier seeming foods, but I wonder now if there isn't some evolutionary aspect to this-- something about the starving brain [wrt the adapted to flee hypothesis maybe?] that prefers uncooked food. Would make sense if you were 'fleeing' that you would be more foraging than cooking... but all that seems a stretch. Definitely interesting read.

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