How Cooking Made Us Human
How much can you hate a book that has sentences like these?:
Instinctotherapists, a minority group among raw-foodists, believe that because we are closely related to apes we should model our eating behavior on theirs.
In fact I liked the book — How Cooking Made Us Human, by Richard Wrangham — very much. Here is a good review of the book. The one sentence version is:
We are cooks more than carnivores.
I also liked this fragment:
…a bachelor is a sorry creature in subsistence societies…