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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation By Michael Pollan Chapter-By-Chapter Summary Part I Chapter 1 Chapter Title: Fire: Creatures of the Flame I. Ayden, North Carolina 1. The ability to cook with fire separates human beings from animals. Pollan was searching for a new way to indulge in the flavor he had never experienced before. He wanted to learn about the whole hog barbecue experience. Pollan used humor effectively to describe the origin of cooking with fire. For example, he defined a shift in human history occurring because some prehistoric person decided that they did not, in fact, need to urinate on fire and put it out. Human self-control led to human control of fire. 2. Pollan claims that the scent of cooking flesh is pleasing to the gods. I was entertained by the way he describes how humans were making sacrifices by burning flesh to the gods. Then humans decide to eat the cooked animals. It seems that humans are “creatures of …show more content…

Intermission: A Pig’s Perspective 1. A Pig’s Perspective is about one pig’s revenge on barbecue. A Pig’s Perspective is a very humorous personal story from Pollan. It is a tale of his pet pig, Kosher. Kosher escaped one summer day and followed the scent of a barbecue at a neighbor’s yard. He knocked over the barbecue grill and made off with the meat that was being cooked. His neighbor found the pig’s transgression very comical. Pollan suggests that the deed was the pig’s vengeance. IV. Raliegh, North Carolina 1. Barbecue is a noun that indicates a social event or a particular kind of food served at the event. Pollan tells the story of Ed Mitchell. Ed has the qualifications needed to be true barbecue hero. He was a Southern Black man. He learned to cook hogs “old school.” Finally, Ed was a natural born sales person and had a passion for cooking barbecue. Ed found his calling quite by accident. Yet, who would not expect Ed to be successful? After all, he got started with barbecue because he was trying to help his

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