Harbourfront
For a couple of weekends now, I've been going to Harbourfront with my youngest (she's the musician) on Friday nights, to enjoy the summer festivals. This past Friday saw the launch of the Canada Day celebrations, featuring acts that are very Canadian. Friday night's act, Veda Hille, was OK, but a little too weird for my tastes. We didn't stay for the other performances, as a cool breeze came in without warning, and drove us away. The previous weekend was similar - we had to leave early for other reasons. I'm hoping that this upcoming weekend, I can actually spend sometime enjoying the performances there, as it's the Blue's Festival, which should be very good.
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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