Street Festival: Yonge & Eglinton
[11:45AM] I'm writing this now, sitting on a street bench on Yonge, just a block north of Eglinton. I'm enjoying a Tim Hortons coffee, people watching and relaxing into the cool breeze that's blowing. It's going to be a hot day, but in the shade right now, with the wind, it's nice. The setting up for the Street Festival is happening all around me. I'm here alone to check things out (everyone else are off doing their own things this morning), and from all indications, this is pretty big. I saw the preliminary set up on Friday, when I drove into work - I didn't expect it to take up so much of Yonge Street. This is BIG. Surprise! The main stage is already in use by a band, tuning up. The street acts are almost completely set up, and the number of people walking the street is growing steadily. There are lots of happy, smiling faces, and this guy who just walked by me with too much clothes on, pants with the crotch down to his knees, and short heading to his ankles - he wears a frown on this his face. That must be cool. I'm thinking that I should encourage my wife to join me down here this afternoon and maybe check out the other venues tomorrow. This looks to be fun.
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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