It takes hours of boiling and leeching, for example, just to get acorns to a state where you can grind them into meal, which you then bake.
Noooooo, my dreams of becoming a squirrel!! I read somewhere that no modern (or fairly pre-modern) cultures follow a 100% raw diet, and that there's a reason for that: cooking and agriculture have made us wimps. But you'd think there'd be some interesting wild stuff you could just grab and eat, right? Herbs, at least? ...Dandelions? To be fair, I suppose wheat takes a lot of processing to turn into food, it's just that we don't do it ourselves.
(Did you see the article in the NYTimes about how Central Park authorities are getting mad at foragers eating all their plants?)
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Date: 2011-08-13 01:38 am (UTC)Noooooo, my dreams of becoming a squirrel!! I read somewhere that no modern (or fairly pre-modern) cultures follow a 100% raw diet, and that there's a reason for that: cooking and agriculture have made us wimps. But you'd think there'd be some interesting wild stuff you could just grab and eat, right? Herbs, at least? ...Dandelions? To be fair, I suppose wheat takes a lot of processing to turn into food, it's just that we don't do it ourselves.
(Did you see the article in the NYTimes about how Central Park authorities are getting mad at foragers eating all their plants?)