On 05/25/2011 04:38 PM, David Harrison wrote:

>
> There is something to be said about smell and taste. Some of our
> preferences are obviously caused by what we ate growing up. Some of
> it is hard wired.
>
>
> Cooked meat usually smells and tastes better than raw. Rotten meat
> smells and tastes…uhhhhh… rotten. Maybe there is some kind of
> therapeutic benefit from a bacterial perspective from “high” meat.

Pemmican tastes like cooked meat, though it is raw. Some, who have the 
right ingredients, say it tastes delicious. So now you know what they 
were doing with fire- rendering fat.
This is a lot easier than cooking meat to taste, and it keeps too.

William