[language] Cooking, and How It Slew the Beast Within]

[H.M. Hubey]

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New York Times
Cooking, and How It Slew the Beast Within
By NATALIE ANGIER

Among virtually every culture on earth, anything worth doing is best
done over
dinner. Bring out a nicely braised roast, a hot loaf of bread and a
slice of,
oh, lemon chess pie, and rifts can be healed, pacts sealed, loves
revealed.
Even the condemned do not want to leave this world without one really
divine
last supper.

In the view of Dr. Richard W. Wrangham, a professor of anthropology at
Harvard,
the preparing, cooking and sociable eating of food are so central to the
human
experience that the culinary arts may well be what made us human in the
first
place.

Dr. Wrangham, who is renowned for his studies of chimpanzees, and of
male
aggression generally, proposes that the use of fire to cook food could
date
back almost 2 million years, a good 1.5 million years before the timing
traditionally accorded it. He also suggests that the capacity to cook
food
could explain a wide array of hominid features, including a large brain,
small
teeth, a relative modesty of size difference, or sexual dimorphism,
between men
and women, and a tendency to pair up and put up with each other far
longer than
most primates do.

Full text
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/28/science/social/28COOK.html

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