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We surmise that approximately one million years ago man discovered how to make fire, signifying one of the most important steps in human evolution.
From cooking and heating to bombing and destruction, fire has many sides. At the beginning, the use of fire helped us to digest more easily and speeded up the intake of
calories required to feed our body and our brain. Food soon became cultural. Cooking developed into a refined art that was employed to make people fall in love, change
destinies or poison enemies. The roasting of meat was almost certainly discovered by chance, most likely after a large fire in which some animal's remains were later found
burnt. Whether the aromas initially attracted our ancestors or whether we learnt this salivatory reaction at a later date, who can tell, but they found pleasure in the taste.
Cooking became more elaborate. When you start to play with different tastes and sources of pleasure, a beautiful symphony of emotions comes into play. Moving onwards from
primordial survival to a more elaborate and conscious consumption, food became the protagonist. From here onwards, the challenge lies in not overeating.
