Episode 139: If It Doesn’t Kill You, Eat It

How did we decide that grinding wheat makes bread? Where did food even come from? Today we explore the origins of food!

Karen pulled a lot from the Food Timeline for this episodes talking points, so here’s that website for your perusal.

Some general concept, but here’s the timeline of food from Wikipedia.

This is about the “Paleo” diet, which is really the Pleistocene Diet, but that doesn’t sound as nice.

Let’s learn about metabolism in the simplest terms.

But here’s the Wikipedia about metabolism if you want to read up.