
Food history: everything you wanted to know
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Cooking Is the Secret to Humanity's Success
Cooking enables us to get much, much more from our food. And that really is the secret to humanity's success. The oldest kind of recipes ar ar mesopotamian tablets and translated heeare recipes in heavily inverted commons for stews. Up until a sort of mediaeval era, you find occasional books such as that, not published books. But they're not cookery books per se. You have to interpret them mostly. There are no methods, obviously. No timings, there are no temperatures. Nothing like that. It's literary,. just a sort of, take this, do this, smite this, see this. So if anybody does want to cook r
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