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I’d wake up to find voice messages on my cell phone from salons or spas confirming appointments I’d booked in my sleep. I always called back to cancel, which I hated doing because I hated talking to people.
“Dental remains show that farmers suffered from tooth decay, unheard of in hunter-gatherers, because the carbohydrates in the farmers’ cereal-heavy diets were reduced to sugars by enzymes in their saliva as they chewed.”
― An Edible History of Humanity
― An Edible History of Humanity
“In effect, hunter-gatherers work two days a week and have five-day weekends.”
― An Edible History of Humanity
― An Edible History of Humanity
“Farming may have been prompted by social competition, as rival groups competed to host the most lavish feasts; this might explain why, in some parts of the world, luxury foods appear to have been domesticated before staples.”
― An Edible History of Humanity
― An Edible History of Humanity
“The short answer is that they did not realize what was happening until it was too late.”
― An Edible History of Humanity
― An Edible History of Humanity
“Similarly, Basques are assumed to be the most direct descendants of hunter-gatherers, for two reasons. First, the Basque language bears no resemblance to European languages descended from proto–Indo-European, the language family imported into Europe along with farming, and instead appears to date back to the Stone Age. (Several Basque words for tools begin with “aitz,” the word for stone, which suggests that the words date from a time when stone tools were in use.) Second, there are several Basque-specific genetic variations that are not found in other Europeans.”
― An Edible History of Humanity
― An Edible History of Humanity
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