From Mike Sands, Hart Village, County Durham, UK
Graham Lawton suggests that cooking dates back a million years and explains that the process is highly cognitively demanding and thus very time-consuming (5 November, p 36).
Surely, this would lead to a specialisation of labour, perhaps more than other “professions” such as knapper or nut-gatherer. Perhaps “chef” should be accepted as the new “oldest profession”.
