Bedtime Story
So my youngest wanted a bedtime story. So, after a few iterations, which she complained about me not knowing how to tell a bedtime story, I came up with the following:
Once upon a time, there was an French old man, as happy and gay as only the French can be. He had many children, but no wife, and was happy. All the children spoke a different language, so it made life very difficult. When they wanted to go potty, they'd say so in their own language, but he wouldn't understand them, and confuse it for them being hungry. There was lots of tension in their bowels. So, one day, he came up with a brilliant idea - he bought them all flutes. Now, whenever they want to go potty, they play the flute and he understands them.
Moral: music makes you happy.
(Don't ask.)
The first chef
First came fire ... and then, as the camera shifts to the soon to be late-village idiot, you're left wondering -- just what was going through that mind -- and food is put on the fire, for the first time, and cooking is accidentally discovered by humanity. The first chef is ridiculed by grunts, then the local thug tries a sample of the burnt carcass, and soon, everybody gets queued at the McDonalds drive-thru. What happened? Richard Wrangham of Harvard believes there's more to cooking than evolutionary history would have you believe. Wrangham points out that there is no way homo sapiens could survive on just raw food. Raw food just doesn't give up calories as easily as cooked food -- and raw food makes the digestive system expend more energy to get at those calories. Cooking on the other hand breaks complex molecules down, allowing the digestive system to make easy work of them -- and cooking also softens food, allowing the body to get to the calories with less effort...
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