People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.

Wrangham cites several studies indicating that in fact humans don't do well on raw food: they can't maintain their body weight, and half of the women on a raw-food regimen stop menstruating. Devotees of raw food rely heavily on juicers and blenders, because otherwise they would have to spend as much time chewing as the chimps do. It is difficult, if not impossible, to extract sufficient energy from unprocessed plant matter to power a body with such a big, hungry brain.

We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.