While Canada Slept, Andrew Cohen
The second speaker at tonight's UofT Bookstore Series, was Andrew Cohen. He was a much better speaker than Peter Scowen, and his book was about Canada. It was an interesting history lesson, given from the perspective of Canada's foreign affairs policy since the early part of the last century. Andrew Cohen took aim at our slow declining interest in the well-being of the world. Perspective was given from our atrophied miltary, cheap foreign aid policy and negligence of our once strong diplomatic corp. Check out a review of the book from the Ottawa Citizen.
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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