Catching fire: Just A unique Perspective Of Our Evolution Told In This One

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Overall rating: Just unique perspective of our evolution told in this one.

This is odd review for smoothies reviews, because this time it is on a none fiction book written by Richard Wrangham. it’s called Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. I didn’t want to read it. I just had to in order to pass a English course.
The book is a collection of scientific essays. It’s about how cooking began ( or thoughts of how it began) There’s multiple theories. Also there’s the theory presented of how cooked food made us evolve, changing our evolution to what we are today.
The book uses a lot of facts. It’s not just some yahoo saying it’s thing way just because he said so. He put the years into the research that went onto the book, and I can appreciate that. Also if you’re a science geek like me, you might like some parts of it. There really is a lot of information here. It’s not as difficult to read as you would think.
Yet on the other hand what kills this book there is a lot of repetition. He’ll spend three pages explaining something in one essay, and then four pages saying the same thing in the next essay. Having to annotate the whole book I just sometime felt like I should smash my head into rock wall because I’m tired of reading same thing over and over again. The book is meant to be skimmed for knowledge, not as novel. (Like I was force to do)
So overall the book is alright. I have a slight interest in anthology. But my interest in food is lacking. (I look at eating as something that just get me through the day more than anything else.) So the two together are kind of weird to me, but I like the work that was put behind it.

2 smoothies out of four