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The Activity and Role of
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Irishman Alan Fisher unseats Nigerian Hilda Baci as cooking marathon record holder -- BBC News (07 November 2023)
What did the Vikings eat? -- BBCTravel (20 June 2023)
Stonehenge builders ate undercooked offal, ancient faeces reveals -- Guardian (20 May 2022)
Ancient cooking vessel found in Boundary Waters dates back more than 1,600 years -- MPRNews (28 February 2022)
The Untold Story of Sushi in America: How a controversial religion from Korea quietly built an empire of raw fish -- Daniel Fromson, The New York Times Magazine (07 November 2021)
Funazushi: The fermented predecessor of modern sushi -- BBCTravel (17 June 2021)
The Swedish chef who cooks solely with fire -- BBCtravel (26 March 2021)
How early humans' quest for food stoked the flames of evolution -- The Guardian (07 March 2021)
- Dunn, Robb, and Monica Sanchez. 2021. Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Cooking with fire: an extract from Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Graphic History -- The Guardian (08 November 2020)
When did humans discover how to use fire? -- LiveScience (08 August 2020)
Which Food Influenced Humanity The Most? (27:04) -- Mental Floss (26 August 2020)
The Japanese village that cooks in a hot spring -- BBCtravel (25 August 2020)
A Beautiful World: To cut waste, food bank teaches students to cook -- MPRNews (25 March 2019)
A New Breed of Hunters Focuses on the Cooking -- The New York Times (05 February 2019)
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat -- hosted by the chef and food writer Samin Nosrat (2018)
Trubek, Amy. Making Modern Meals: How Americans Cook Today. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017.
No Giant Leap for Mankind: Why We’ve Been Looking at Human Evolution in the Wrong Way -- Conversation (14 June 2016)
It’s Dinner in a Box. But Are Meal Delivery Kits Cooking? -- The New York Times (04 April 2015)
Ancient Non-Stick Pan Factory Found in Italy -- Discovery News (28 March 2016)
Why Did We Invent Pottery? -- ScienceDaily (21 March 2016)
Chew on This: Slicing Meat Helped Shape Modern Humans -- NPR (09 March 2016)
Meat eating accelerated face evolution -- BBC News (09 March 2016)
How Sliced Meat Drove Human Evolution -- Science (09 March 2016)
Volcanoes Sparked an Explosion in Human Intelligence, Researcher Argues -- LiveScience (28 December 2015)
COP21: Ghana's green energy gamble on 'poo-power' -- BBCNews (01 December 2015)
Paleo people were making flour 32,000 years ago -- MPRNews (14 September 2015)
Barbecue is an American tradition – of enslaved Africans and Native Americans -- Michael W Twitty, Guardian (04 July 2015)
Chimps Are No Chumps: Give Them an Oven, They'll Learn to Cook -- NPR (03 June 2015)
Cooking skills may have emerged millions of years ago -- BBC News (03 June 2015)
Chimps like chips. They would be cooking if they could -- Guardian (03 June 2015)
The Naked Chef? Chimpanzees Can 'Cook' and Prefer Cooked Food – Study -- Guardian (02 June 2015)
How Modern Humans Ate Their Way to World Dominance -- Science (06 February 2015)
From Campfire to Haute Cuisine: How Food and Flavor Drove Human Evolution -- National Geographic News (18 January 2015)
Israeli Cave Offers Clues About When Humans Mastered Fire -- Science (12 December 2014)
Neanderthals Ate Barbecued Pigeon -- Guardian (07 August 2014)
Hot Stew in the Ice Age? Evidence Shows Neanderthals Boiled Food -- National Geographic News (30 April 2014)
Ancient Greeks Used Portable Grills at Their Picnics -- LiveScience (08 January 2014)
Why Fire Makes Us Human -- Jerry Adler, The Smithsonian Magazine (June 2013)
First Evidence of Pottery Used for Cooking -- Science (10 April 2013)
Pottery Reveals Ice Age Hunter-Gatherers’ Taste for Fish -- ScienceDaily (09 April 2013)
Stone Age Stew? Soup Making May Be Older Than We'd Thought -- NPR (06 February 2013)
Cooking With Clay the Mayan Way -- Past Horizons (10 December 2012)
Maori Stones Hold Magnetic Clues -- BBC News (07 December 2012)
Invention of Cooking Made Having a Bigger Brain an Asset for Humans -- Guardian (22 October 2012)
Who Mastered Fire? -- L.V. Anderson, Slate (05 October 2012)

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Booth, Sue, and John Coveney. Food Democracy: From Consumer to Food Citizen . NY: Springer, 2015.
Cooking and Cognition: How Humans Got So Smart -- LiveScience (8/11/08)
Cooking Gave Humans Edge Over Apes? -- Christine Dell'Amore, National Geographic News (13 February 2009)
Cooking Has Been Both Boon and Bane for Humans -- Wired (2009-02-13)
De Cássia Vieira Cardoso, Ryzia, Michèle Companion, and Stefano Roberto Marras, Eds. Street Food: Culture, Economy, Health and Governance. NY: Routledge, 2014.
Deutsch, Jonathan. Barbecue: A Global History. London: Reaktion Books, 2014.
Did the discovery of cooking make us human? -- BBCNews (02 March 2010)
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How learning to cook increased human brain size -- -- BBCNews (10 December 2010)
Invention of Cooking Made Having a Bigger Brain an Asset for Humans -- Guardian (22 October 2012)
Laudan, Rachel. Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 2015.
Meat, Cooked Foods Needed for Early Human Brain -- LiveScience (19 November 2012)
Meat, Fire And The Evolution Of Man -- NPR (02 August 2010)
Pollan, Michael. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. NY: Penguin, 2013.
Shapiro, Laura. Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America. NY: Penguin, 2005.
Smith, Lindsey P. Shu Wen Ng, and Barry M Popkin. Trends in US home food preparation and consumption: analysis of national nutrition surveys and time use studies from 1965–1966 to 2007–2008. Nutrition Journal. (11 April 2013.)
Steingarten, Jeffrey. It Must've Been Somethin I Ate. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Twitty, Michael W. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South. NY: HarperCollins, 2017.

The Cooking Gene, Michael W. Twitty

Why Are Humans Different From All Other Apes? It’s the Cooking, Stupid -- DWIGHT GARNER, The New York Times (26 May 2009)
Wrangham, Richard. Catching Fire: How cooking made us human. Basic Books, 2009.
- Richard Wrangham: Cooking Is What Made Us Human -- NewScientist (21 December 2009)

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