Animal Quote by Carleton S. Coon

“Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other…

— Michael Pollan

“By shortening the intestines and decreasing their energy consumption, cooking inadvertently opened the way to the jumbo brains of Neanderthals and Sapiens.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure…

— Norman Borlaug

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

— Benjamin Franklin

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

— Edmund Burke

It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have…

— Arthur Compton

“Cooking was something women did to nourish and nurture their families, whereas for men it was largely something they did professionally to gain money…

— Padma Lakshmi

Cooking is what makes us human. For example, Chimpanzees spend eight to ten hours trying to feed themselves, they are occupied by it, eating…

— Jonathan Gold

Cooking is revolution and creation.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness...

— Ted Allen

Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.

— Bobby Flay

...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner…

— Dick Gregory