Forums
I've created a forum as a test. Let me know what you think. If you start using it, it will become a part of this site permanently. If not, it dies a slow and boring death.
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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OK, I'm having second and third thoughts about this. I'm not sure a forum will actually take off on this site. I'm not actually sure that the site needs it. Being able to have open discussions would be a good thing -- but do I really care to discuss anything with my visitors? Do my visitors care to discuss anything with me? I'm not sure.
I'm thinking maybe the forum would be better suited as a story database -- one of those creations where the story is continually being added by many people.
Just a thought -- or in this case, two.
Posted by Andy(www) at 22:55 15/9/2004