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Rethinking “Why” Humans Began Cooking with Fire Rob Dunn said the “key moment” when early humans first started cooking with fire “has at its core, just the tastiness of food and the pleasure it provides.” What this highlights is the importance of ancient noses, and the exceptionally close ties between flavor and human survival. The book explains that the ability to decipher flavor dimensions in food and drink, known as “retro-nasal olfaction,” in some early humans, made their chances of survival more likely. What this means is that ancient humans who had developed a stronger...

How early humans' quest for food stoked the flames of evolution The Banquet of the Monarchs, c1579, by Alonzo Sanchez Coello: ‘high food culture’ in the middle ages. Photograph: Album/Alamy The Banquet of the Monarchs, c1579, by Alonzo Sanchez Coello: ‘high food culture’ in the middle ages. Photograph: Album/Alamy A love of complex smells and flavours gave our ancestors an edge and stopped hangovers Sun 7 Mar 2021 01.16 EST Human evolution and exploration of the world were shaped by a hunger for tasty food – “a quest for deliciousness” – according to two leading academics. Anc...

The evolution of early humans was fuelled by their quest for delicious food and flavour, academics have argued.   In their new book Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez have suggested those who could smell more complex scents and enjoyed sour foods had an advantage over others.  The academics also believe our ancestors who were able to smell the difference between rotting and fermenting food had a better chance of survival, The Observer reports.   Academics Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez have suggested the evolution of early humans was fuelled by their pursuit of flavour in their new book Delicious...

Listen to the story. We're cleaning every surface we regularly touch, but when we kill 99% of germs, what's in that 1% left behind? Credit: Share It has been said that cleanliness is next to godliness, but the constant disinfecting and scrubbing of our homes, offices and public spaces during the coronavirus pandemic has taken these seemingly virtuous efforts to a whole new level. COVID-19 is now understood to spread primarily through close contact with infected people rather than contaminated surfaces, but that hasn’t stopped consumers from snapping up cleaning products that promise ...

DanAyo Thanks for linking the transcript. I’ve listened to this a few times, and the main take away that my experience does not bare out is commonly accepted belief among these trained professionals that established starters are highly resistant to change.  As I’ve written on numerous occasions, it has been my experience that when established starters from other bakers around the US are sent to me, that after only a couple of weeks in my home environment (all things being equal including flour, temp, water, etc.) that each and every new starter is virtually indistinguishable from my pe...