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    Good Food

    How Cooking Makes Us Human

    Richard Wrangham is the Ruth Moore Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University. His book, Catching Fire : How Cooking Made Us Human, examines how cooking -- even more than agriculture, eating meat or the advent of tools -- is what led to the rise of humanity.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Richard Wrangham is the Ruth Moore Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University. His book,

    Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

    , examines how cooking -- even more than agriculture, eating meat or the advent of tools -- is what led to the rise of humanity.

    The full episode

    5 of 8
    Vincent Price, Dinner with a Cannibal, Scallops
    1. 0:00Market Report
    2. 7:13Breakfast with Vincent Price
    3. 13:33A Vincentennial Celebration
    4. 22:23Dinner with a Cannibal
    5. 30:19How Cooking Makes Us HumanYou’re reading this
    6. 38:09Beyond Kogi: Revisiting Chego
    7. 42:37Do Americans Over-Intellectualize Food?
    8. 47:51Scallops 101
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Gillian Ferguson

      Supervising Producer, Good Food

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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      Candace Moyer

      Producer of Good Food and Special Projects

      CultureFood & Drink

    The full episode

    5 of 8
    Vincent Price, Dinner with a Cannibal, Scallops
    1. 0:00Market Report
    2. 7:13Breakfast with Vincent Price
    3. 13:33A Vincentennial Celebration
    4. 22:23Dinner with a Cannibal
    5. 30:19How Cooking Makes Us HumanYou’re reading this
    6. 38:09Beyond Kogi: Revisiting Chego
    7. 42:37Do Americans Over-Intellectualize Food?
    8. 47:51Scallops 101
    Back to Good Food