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 In a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is to lodge a protest against specialization - against the total rationalization of life. Against the infiltration of commercial interests into every last cranny of our lives. (...) Cooking has the power to transform more than plants and animals: it transforms us, too, from mere consumers into __producers__. In a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is to lodge a protest against specialization - against the total rationalization of life. Against the infiltration of commercial interests into every last cranny of our lives. (...) Cooking has the power to transform more than plants and animals: it transforms us, too, from mere consumers into __producers__.
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 +According to Levi-Strauss the distinction between "the raw" and "the cooked" has served many cultures as the great trope for the difference between animals and people. (...) Cooking transforms nature and, by doing so, elevates us above that state, __making us human__.
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