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elfsBiological anthropologist Richard Wrangham has proposed that cooking was a necessary step in human evolution, because cooking breaks down fibers and improves the bioavailability of many nutrients we don't normally extract from raw foods.
But more than that, we cooked over woodfire. And I would not be surprised at all to learn that cooking over a woodfire is engrained into our genes in a way that, say, cooking with gas or electricity is not. As we camped, we were always cooking with wood, and damn if it didn't make everything we ate taste better. Even pancakes and scrambled eggs. There was something to the smoke that was utterly wonderful.
But more than that, we cooked over woodfire. And I would not be surprised at all to learn that cooking over a woodfire is engrained into our genes in a way that, say, cooking with gas or electricity is not. As we camped, we were always cooking with wood, and damn if it didn't make everything we ate taste better. Even pancakes and scrambled eggs. There was something to the smoke that was utterly wonderful.
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Date: 2009-07-31 02:33 pm (UTC)As for brewski, being as I'm exclusively on two wheels these days and an FNG at it to boot, I'd have to settle for root beer or tea or some such, but it sounds like you've as many war stories as I do, and a wee session of chewing the fat (and the pepperoni, as the old Unix Users Group dude used to say) would .... probably last far too long for my bedtime, but still be time well spent.
(And you wouldn't be the first Bear I've disappointed and yet was still willing to hang out with :)