Catching Fire : : how Cooking Made us Human
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The cooking hypothesis -- Quest for raw-foodists -- The cook's body -- The energy theory of cooking -- When cooking began -- Brain foods -- How cooking frees men -- The married cook -- The cook's journey -- The well-informed cook.
Primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that "cooking" created the human race. At the heart of "Catching Fire" lies the idea that the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the male-female division of labor.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: v, 309 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780465013623 (alk. paper)
0465013627 (alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Prehistoric peoples -- Food.
Roasting (Cooking) -- History.
Fire -- History.
Hearths, Prehistoric.
Food habits -- History.