Pavlo’s Reviews > Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World > Status Update

“I love watching cookery programmes, looking at and learning from culinary cultures from around the world. Let’s not underestimate our Neolithic ancestors – they had their own cuisines. They would have enjoyed working out how to combine different ingredients to make something new and even tastier.”

Rax King: How I Left My Abusive Husband and Found Guy Fieri

“Again, it’s easy to fall into that familiar academic trap of talking about everything in the abstract. People didn’t start to grow and eat rice because it was a good source of calories, protein and other nutrients. Surely they started to eat it because it was tasty.”

Great stuff, this. Well written and very compelling storytelling.