Saturday, June 27, 2009

I've been thinking.

 

…about food.  More specifically, I’ve been wondering about what our ancestors ate.  Not our immediate ancestors like the ones from before there was a McDonalds on the corner, or the generations before that, the farmers who ate what they grew, but the ones we really evolved from.  The hunter/gatherers that lived for hundreds of thousands of years, thousands of generations, with essentially no change.  What did they eat?

 

They probably ate anything they could get their hands on, pull from the ground, pick from a tree, chase down and kill with a stick, or find dead lying along the road.  They were probably hunter/gatherer/scavengers.  Fruits, vegetables, animals, bugs.  I wonder if they ate any beans or grains.  Could they eat anything that had to be soaked or boiled before it was palatable?  Can you walk through a field of wheat, nibbling off seeds from the top of the stalks?  Is there any nutrition in that?

 

 

No comments:

Post a Comment