Responses 9/26/11

The Cooking Ape - Prompt #1

1. Wrangham mentions that by cooking food, our calorie intake has increased and that has helped the evolution of primates into humans. He also states that the difference between a primate's mouth, and ours, is that our mouth has been changed so that we're able to chew things that have been cooked. Wrangham also states that there's a correlation between the male roles of thousands of years ago, to their roles now. They rely on someone else to cook their meals for them, so that they're able to eat. He thinks that the first cooked meals were made by those less superior, but then eaten by those that were actually in charge; survival of the fittest.

The Pleasures of Eating - Prompt # 3

1. Since most of us live on campus, we can't necessarily grow our own food, but we can look for fruits to eat, or ask what's in certain things we eat before we choose to buy them.
2. As a college student, I do have cups of noodles, macaroni and cheese, and easy meals I can prepare like that, and that's basically the only way I'm able to make my own food. But by making my own cup of noodles, I am more conscious of what I am eating.
3. In the Russell House, we can probably ask people where the food is coming from that we eat. I'm sure someone would have to know the origin of it.
4. I guess if we really wanted to, we could find local farm's market, and purchase more fruits or veggies that we didn't have to cook, so we could easily eat them.
5. We could stuff up online about what's added into our food that we're eating.
6. We could also look up online about farming and gardening.
7. Be more aware of the things around us.