Todays Q&Q featured Dr Richard Ranghim (sp) of Harvard who supposes Homo Erectus was cooking his food, this is well before the plodding corporate body of science will openly acclaim. So Dr Ranghim puts the beginning of fine barbecueing at 1.6---1.8 million years BN.
So there he was with this sound idea but didn't seem to go the extra four feet or so and actually envision the very first conspiracy to wait for the embers to cool and fetch that fat rodent from the wild fire, it may have been a beaver. So he's telling us that Homo Erectus invented cooking rather than the crux of the whole matter I think and that is that cooking invented Homo Sapien. The scientist is sometimes an egghead.
So when we began to employ fire is a benchmark, but water was first. Or was it?Some fire must have warmed it up so we could swim in it easier I think. I can't get back far enough to pry them apart. The constituant pieces leave me with a handfull of nuts and bolts that monkeys won't ever hammer into a drill press.
To be fair I didn't hear the entire interview and the egghead may have said more or less the same thing I just did. I think this should be in the cooking threads maybe. Lava flows may have been barbacue heaven in the old days, wild fire burnovers would have been worth following, fire does interesting things to other stuff too. We were bribed to stand up and chase fire with cooked tidbits. The reason must have been induced before that. It must have been drugs. Lightly toasted delishious looking mushrooms or ripe warm cannibis kolas. What does the bible say? I can't remember, and I'm not inclined to research. We were always led to think that man invented fire. Who's responsible for that concieted argument?
So there he was with this sound idea but didn't seem to go the extra four feet or so and actually envision the very first conspiracy to wait for the embers to cool and fetch that fat rodent from the wild fire, it may have been a beaver. So he's telling us that Homo Erectus invented cooking rather than the crux of the whole matter I think and that is that cooking invented Homo Sapien. The scientist is sometimes an egghead.
So when we began to employ fire is a benchmark, but water was first. Or was it?Some fire must have warmed it up so we could swim in it easier I think. I can't get back far enough to pry them apart. The constituant pieces leave me with a handfull of nuts and bolts that monkeys won't ever hammer into a drill press.
To be fair I didn't hear the entire interview and the egghead may have said more or less the same thing I just did. I think this should be in the cooking threads maybe. Lava flows may have been barbacue heaven in the old days, wild fire burnovers would have been worth following, fire does interesting things to other stuff too. We were bribed to stand up and chase fire with cooked tidbits. The reason must have been induced before that. It must have been drugs. Lightly toasted delishious looking mushrooms or ripe warm cannibis kolas. What does the bible say? I can't remember, and I'm not inclined to research. We were always led to think that man invented fire. Who's responsible for that concieted argument?
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