Book Review: Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human. by Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez
"Pleasure was central to the biggest changes in our evolutionary past," "Cuisine is a major evolutionary innovation. However, it is rare in nature." "This search for great flavors is embedded in our species' very name: homo (human) sapiens (knowing). But "sapiens" originates in a verb meaning "to taste" and later "to have discernment." "The human who discerns through taste," confident in their belief that "we sit together and make sense of the world one bite at a time." Source: Dunn and Sanchez Review: In a recent book, Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human, Rob Dunn, and Monica Sanchez explore the origins of food preferences in humans and how they evolved over time and ultimately changed us. The book proposes that flavor and desire for pleasure in food significantly influenced the behavior of pre-humans and early humans. For example, the quest of flavor involving processing of food m...