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English Pages 309 Year 2009

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
978-0-786-74478-7, 0786744782, 9780465020416

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Richard Wrangham

Table of contents :
Content: The cooking hypothesis --
Quest for raw-foodists --
The cook's body --
The energy theory of cooking --
When cooking began --
Brain foods --
How cooking frees men --
The married cook --
The cook's journey --
The well-informed cook.

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