Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
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A startling new theory that the invention of cooking led to the creation of the human species The New York Times - Dwight Garner Catching Fire is a plain-spoken and thoroughly gripping scientific essay that presents nothing less than a new theory of human evolution…[Wrangham] has delivered a rare thing: a slim book—the text itself is a mere 207 pages—that contains serious science yet is related in direct, no-nonsense prose. It is toothsome, skillfully prepared brain food.
Introduction: The Cooking Hypothesis 11 Quest for Raw-Foodists 152 The Cook's Body 373 The Energy Theory of Cooking 554 When Cooking Began 835 Brain Foods 1056 How Cooking Frees Men 1297 The Married Cook 1478 The Cook's Journey 179Epilogue: The Well-Informed Cook 195Acknowledgments 209Notes 213Bibliography 257Index 289
