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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."

Michael Pollan

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Dec122010

Jay Rayner on bloody steaks

DateSunday, December 12, 2010 at 8:45PM

"Asking for well done steak is not a simple matter of choice. It is a crime against taste and life itself... A well done steak is not a matter of choice. It's not a sweet affectation. It's a violation. Why would anyone want to take a good piece of meat and cook it until it has the texture of shoe leather, but none of the utility? Why would they want to put something in their mouth that tastes of nothing and gives you jaw cramps? Why would they want to rob it of the very thing that makes it itself?"

Rayner, J. (2010) The Happy Eater. Observer Food Monthly, Issue 115, 12 Dec, p.5.

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