Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
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Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy.
I don't understand a mentality that will accept eating something that doesn't taste good just because it's low-fat or is made with matzo or whatever.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.
Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!
We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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