I bet my building manager would get really peeved if I tried this at home, but it reminded me
a lot of what we used to do as kids (at least until my 2nd brother created a very paleo sort of
grass fire that took out several hundred acres!) and it has my vote for most likely scenario
during quite a few millenia (speaking in general terms, not precise historical
measurements... )

I think that the simplest scenarios, the ones that evoke what we think of as childish simplicity
and naiveté are probably the closest to what really went on.

Molly


On 8 May 2004 at 16:59, Barry wrote:

> common ways of cooking. Here's my Duck recipe: Skin one duck and rip
> it into hand-sized pieces. Pile some hay or dry grass up about 1 foot
> to 18 inches high throw duck into grass. Light. Pile on more hay so
> that the pile burns about 10 minutes. Let it burn out. Fish out the
> chunks. Mmmmm... black on the outside, juicy and tender on the inside!