Chapter 46 Can't bear to see him alive, can't bear to see him familiar

More and more people are falling in love with raw food. According to a report in the 22nd issue of Sanlian Life Weekly in 2000, the raw mutton slices "delicious like watermelon" in a mutton restaurant in Beijing are very popular among diners. Even after receiving the warning that biological viruses invade the human body on a large scale, the owner of the restaurant still argued: "Where is there no bacteria? Eating some bacteria can also improve people's resistance." Since C. Levi-Strauss (C. Levi-Strauss) successfully established "raw and cooked", "fresh Human cooking and eating practices have only gained corresponding discursive and speculative support since the set of rigorous logical frameworks composed of opposing concepts, such as "wet and rotten" and "wet and dry".Levy-Stor's theoretical framework further consolidates our understanding of "life belongs to the natural category, while familiarity belongs to the cultural category".Of course, eating and drinking is just a trivial matter. Levi-Stor's greatest contribution is that he uses raw food and cooked food as a kind of empirically highly credible material, and discovers and establishes the corresponding relationship between the opposite groups at the following levels: Food level is "raw/cooked", sound level is "silent/acoustic", social level is "nature/cultural", religious level is "secular/sacred", etc.

For the vast majority of eating and drinking men and women in the world, "Mythology" is a useless study.However, since it involves diet, since it involves raw and cooked food, it is not difficult for us to make such an assumption, eat a piece of pork raw, and then pull the stomach of this structuralism: "raw/cooked" The corresponding at the level of physiological response is "diarrhea/no diarrhea", and the corresponding of "diarrhea/no diarrhea" at the level of sound is "silent/acoustic", or "wet/dry". ". Purely from the point of view of evolution, cooked food is an improvement of raw food, while raw food is a reaction and negation of cooked food and cooking, just like rape and "sex as you like", adultery and "married sex" ,etc.So, what is cooking?Cooking is civilization and culture, and cooked food is the reason for the existence and development of cooking as a symbolic achievement of instrumental rationality.Otherwise, not only will the historical evaluation of fire-making technology be greatly discounted, but Prometheus will face a new understanding of "30-70". At the very least, the economic and social status of chefs and housewives will not compare Or higher for pigs.

Cooking raw rice into cooked rice seems to be an innate urge.In fact, the benefits of cooked food range from enjoyment to health.Generally speaking, cooking raw food can kill even deadly germs, greatly enhance its expressive power in terms of "color, aroma, and taste", and facilitate chewing, swallowing, and digestion.But the deli tradition is being challenged like never before since the environmental movement.There are many theories about raw food, and they can be summed up in the following two points: 1. Foods that have not been cooked (heated) can retain their rich natural nutrients, especially the active biochemical enzymes that are indispensable for maintaining human health (encymes).In other words, human beings can take in the most absorbable and digestible nutrients from raw food without cooking. Second, the cooking process not only destroys the natural nutrients in food, but also causes environmental damage while consuming a lot of energy. pollute.

Ironically, most of the raw foods that are currently popular in China are not for health reasons, but for the sake of taste and eating pleasure.To a certain extent, diners' desire for "survival" is more to experience a sense of strangeness in taste and the stimulation it brings to taste buds.Of course, the process of eating raw is also full of "joy of life" that cooked food cannot provide. An anthropological research team led by Harvard University professor Langham believes that the skill of cooking vegetables learned by humans about 2 million years ago determines some crucial parts of life later.A research report published by this group pointed out that the discovery of cooking greatly improved the digestibility of plants and the amount of plants eaten by primitive people.Nearly half of the tuber plants on the earth cannot be eaten unless they are cooked, and many vegetables will release more energy and nutrients only after cooking, which caused human intestines, teeth, and body shape 1.9 million years ago. and brain size evolved.In addition, due to the different division of labor, cooking is mostly undertaken by women, and the food cooked by women is easily stolen by men, so the former has to rely on men to protect food against thieves.Wrangham further pointed out: "The primitive woman who can attract a powerful male with sexual charm may be more immune to thieves. At the same time, competition has also emerged among women to maintain their sexual attractiveness for a longer period of time, so that Comparing with other female opponents, it is important for men to continue to protect them. In a word, the characteristics of women in terms of body curves, sexual behavior all year round, etc., all began with the cooked food culture of primitive people.”

Although Harvard's great conjecture sometimes inevitably has some "Zhu Haijun"-like features, this statement still moved me and further strengthened my determination to carry out cooked food to the end while not forgetting the tradition of eating raw.What is the most appropriate evaluation of the process of human beings from eating raw to cooked food?Said: the greatness of life, the glory of maturity.