Not only meat but also pastries how did we discover that flour and water make bread for instance
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By accident most likely, while foraging in areas damaged by wildfire.
This would have happened hundreds of thousands of years ago, long before written language or cultural memory that would preserve any specific details.
What we do know is that some uncontacted tribes didn’t have fire-starting technology and had to endlessly tend to fires they’d picked up from natural sources. That suggests that cooking predates fire-starting.
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