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