Energy consumption Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more…

— Carleton S. Coon

“The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought about the…

— Michael Pollan

“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

“I believe that forcing researchers to eat their own cooking whenever possible solves a serious problem in science.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

...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

“When it comes to food, we are, in essence, following an eating script that has been written into the circuits of our brains.”

— David Kessler

“He had written commentaries for the Journal suggesting that people would be healthier if they lived more like their paleolithic ancestors had. Not that…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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

— Benjamin Franklin

“Cooks were the mitochondria of humanity; they had their own separate DNA, they floated in a cell and powered it but were not really…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Amylase digests starchy, carbohydrate-rich foods, and helps generate glucose from them, which would provide much needed energy for the evolving and highly energetic brain.…

— Adam Rutherford