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Letter: The importance of early chefs, or of seafood

Published 7 December 2016

From Mike Sands, Hart Village, County Durham, UK

Graham Lawton suggests that cooking dates back a million years and explains that the process is highly cognitively demanding and thus very time-consuming (5 November, p 36).

Surely, this would lead to a specialisation of labour, perhaps more than other “professions” such as knapper or nut-gatherer. Perhaps “chef” should be accepted as the new “oldest profession”.

Issue no. 3103 published 10 December 2016

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