On Wed, 22 May 2002 09:25:00 -0400, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>On Wed, 22 May 2002, Philip Thrift wrote:
>
>> "We" have been cooking about as long as we have been hunting big game
>> and we are adapted to both.
>
>This may be so, but if we take it seriously then we have no
>reason to exclude cooking-dependent foods at all. There is,
>after all, no reason to believe that we cooked meats and nothing
>else.
We have no reason to believe that only meat was cooked by
paleopeople. But it does not follow from this that we have no
reason to exclude any cooking-dependent food. Even if you were
to accept that plants were cooked (I do), you have to consider
that the amount plants that were gathered may have been small
over the meat they had access to and also what types of wild
plants these actually were (there was no field cultivation)
that they would have as any significant part of their diet
(over meat).
Philip Thrift
http://www.geocities.com/PaleoFitness