Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
But the food narratives we create when we shop, cook and eat don’t need to be exotic, expensive or rarefied. They shouldn’t be estranged from the humdrum, ugly, familiar mess of everyday life. They don’t even have to taste good. The important thing is giving yourself time to imagine your food, to touch, taste and smell the ingredients, and to reall
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ex-NOMA fermentation chief 'david zilber' cooks up food with bacteria, microbes, and yeast
Matthew Burgosdesignboom.com
I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination and injustice—and does so more vividly than any other artifact, any other medium.