Catching Fire : How Cooking Made Us Human

from jmoncton

OK, forget the raw food movement. This book presents an interesting theory that a breakthrough moment in human evolution was when man began cooking his food. Cooking the food allowed more calories to be absorbed, changing the shape of primates from having large digestive tracts to large brains. A...

from lquilter

Intuitively Wrangham's thesis makes a lot of sense, and he does a decent job laying out research that supports his thesis. I suspect that it's not quite that simple, but I found persuasive his account of the nutritional benefits of cooking. His relation of this to evolutionary time is a bit sketc...

from Janientrelac

Interesting, well written with lots of evidence. Men get married to have a woman cooking the evening meal, women get married to have peace while cooking, cooking is one of the factors creating sex roles, combines well with E. W. Barber's book about woman's role in textiles.

from Janientrelac

Interesting, well written with lots of evidence. Men get married to have a woman cooking the evening meal, women get married to have peace while cooking, cooking is one of the factors creating sex roles, combines well with E. W. Barber's book about woman's role in textiles.

from samsheep

Plenty of food for thought (ha) and very well written to be readable yet scientifically persuasive. Found it a bit depressing when he talked about how women became slaves to the cooker (or fire) as they needed someone stronger to help them prevent their food being stolen. The housewife was born.