With generous helpings of warmth and wit Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez offer bold new
perspectives on why food is enjoyable and how the pursuit of delicious flavors has guided the
course of human history. They consider the role that flavor may have played in the invention of
the first tools the extinction of giant mammals the evolution of the world's most delicious
and fatty fruits the creation of beer and our own sociality. Along the way you will learn
about the taste receptors you didn't even know you had the best way to ferment a mastodon the
relationship between Paleolithic art and cheese and much more.
