Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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How did our ancestors cook the foods they ate (or not). Do you think this is important? What can we learn from it?

I remember reading anthropology that e.g. the Hadza just throw a monkey on the fire until the outer layers are black and the inner meats are still raw. But I also remember reading other hunter-gatherers using more sophisticated cooking methods, like slow cooking in leather 'bags'.

Thanks!

flag	asked Aug 3 2011 at 11:08 Pieter D 11.4k●2●20●50

	great question. i think its something between raw and dead. kill the germs and still have the living energy of the animal. I think this shows a lot. so more detailed aswers from athropology here are so more we learn and cope next time. – oak0y Aug 3 2011 at 11:26
	I was wondering the same thing. Ancestors supposedly ate everything from the animal, but how did they extract nutrients from the bones and cartilage? I don't know if bone broths were known back then. – Walcott Aug 3 2011 at 13:28

Eluic · Answer 1 · 2011-08-03 14:32:01Z UTC

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Go on you tube and watch ray mears wilderness survival show he asks and answers this exact question in the wilderness of the world.

answered Aug 3 2011 at 14:32

Eluic
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What can we learn from the cooking methods of our ancestors?

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