Lying on his living room floor staring into the flames, Harvard professor Richard Wrangham was thinking about the next morning's lecture on evolution when he had his "Eureka" moment. In his book, ...

You may have thought cooking was just a way to get something to eat. Actually, it’s why homo sapiens developed bodies strong enough to bench-press a dump truck and brains that could create ...

There have been many writers, from Brillat-Savarin to modern-day food anthropologists, who have remarked that cooking is a defining aspect of our humanity. These assertions have typically formed the ...