WHY WE EAT WHAT WE EAT.......

  I have always wondered how the human race arrived at the conclusion that certain foods or fruits or seeds or animals were palatable and others weren't.....is there actually a list or is it just psychologically imprinted on us....I know some might say it is as a result of incessant trial and error, but come to think about it how many unknown fruits or foods have you actually put into your mouth just to be able to ascertain if its palatable or not...so therefore who or which generation actually decided on the criteria for palatability of a substance how did we get to define taste and differentiate what is sweet from what is sour

   Let's take it from the first generation of humans" the Adam's family", he and his wife lived in a garden at the time so therefore their diet was basically fruits. and the bible made us realize in Gen 2 vs 16 that "and the lord God commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat".....so according to God we could eat from every tree of the garden....but who now made the distinctions of which fruits were poisonous and which weren't , how many people had to die for us to compile our list of edible fruits and animals....how did we distinguish between weeds, grasses and vegetables how did we conclude that vultures, crows and eagles were not edible but chickens, turkeys and guinea fowls were........these questions are actually rhetorical as we may never know the true answers to why we eat what we eat and why we ignore others...... I honestly do not envy the first man that tasted the bananas, oranges and pineapples as they wouldn't have known to peel the backs of those fruits and they would have probably just gone ahead to bite into the fruit without peeling it......and I imagine their surprise upon realization that beneath the peel actually lies the juice......

  The next generation of humans probably had fire and would have been challenged with the problems of determining which crops were cookable and which weren't and they would also have determine at what point the cooked food was done......who discovered rice and decided that  boiling it was the best way to consume it why didn't they just decide to fry it or roast it....and it  amazes me why all this questions although pivotal to the human existence are never really been investigated or properly researched at the highest levels of civilization 

   just an elite few actually considers why we do what we do when we do them.....so the big question remains If you know a particular way of preparing a particular food better than the way it is normally done or you discover a new palatable fruit that is new to mankind.....how do you share your knowledge with the rest of the world...... 

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