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Cervantes on hunger
Monday, January 23, 2017 at 8:57PM
"There is no sauce in the world like hunger."
Cervantes, Don Quixote
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"Cooking, in effect, took part of the work of chewing and digestion and performed it for us outside of the body, using outside sources of energy. Also, since cooking detoxifies many potential sources of food, the new technology cracked open a treasure trove of calories unavailable to other animals. Freed from the necessity of spending our days gathering large quantities of raw food and then chewing (and chewing) it, humans could now devote their time, and their metabolic resources, to other purposes, like creating a culture."
"There is no sauce in the world like hunger."
Cervantes, Don Quixote
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