Meat Dishes

Meat entered the human diet before humans did: cut-marked bones from Ethiopia push butchery back some 2.6 million years, and the calories it freed are part of why our ancestors’ guts shrank as their brains grew. Every later cuisine inherited the same problem — how to make tough muscle tender and safe — and answered it separately, which is why meat cookery is universal and its methods are not.

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