Hi David:
> In fact, I have
>wondered recently whether attraction to cooked food even in us humans might
>be an example of this phenomenon (that is, some of the pyrolytic products
>are super-stimuli). Now there's a burning question.

Aughh!

"Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed.
It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself". Loren Eiseley, "The
Last Neanderthal"

"Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last
ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either
one"' William Least Heat Moon, "Blue Highways"

"Bad cooks--and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen--have delayed human
development longest and impaired it most". Nietzsche---1886!!!!!

Cool off, David!

Pat