Word: meat
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...evolutionary psychologists of the '90s, promoted what amounts to a prostitution theory of human evolution: Since males have always been free to roam around, following their bliss, the big challenge for the prehistoric female was to land a male hunter and keep him around in a kind of meat-for-sex arrangement. Museum dioramas of the Paleolithic past still tend to feature the guys heading out after the mastodons, spears in hand, while the gals crouch slack-jawed around the campfire, busily lactating. The chivalrous conclusion is that today's woman can do whatever she likes--start a company, pilot...
...reasons for being suspicious of the dominant paradigm. The first revisionist blow came in the mid-'70s, when anthropologists Adrienne Zihlman and Nancy Tanner pointed out that among surviving "hunting" peoples, most of the community's calories--up to 70%--come from plant food patiently gathered by women, not meat heroically captured by men. The evidence for Stone Age consumption of plant foods has mounted since then. In 1994 paleobotanist Sarah Mason concluded that a variety of plant material discovered at the Paleolithic site of Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic was in fact edible roots and seeds...
...exception. A bona fide off-Broadway smash and soon-to-be-movie, Hedwig also makes a captivating rock-'n'-roll album. The tale of a transsexual trailer-park denizen, Hedwig echoes the gender-blending audacity of late 1970s David Bowie and the hormone-stoked feverishness of early Meat Loaf. But John Cameron Mitchell's vocals and Stephen Trask's music have their own raw poetry. The spirit of Hedwig shines through: cheeky, resilient, wounded but triumphant...
...Chen family, the Pu Pu's owners, also runs the larger Taiwan Cafe on Broadway. Liu says the other restaurant carries the same kind of food, but also specializes in the Mongolian hot pot, a kind of vegetable-and-meat stew that is cooked in a large pot and then dipped in special sauce before eating. Liu says the dish is "typical in northern China during the winter...
...Chen family, the Pu Pu's owners, also runs the larger Taiwan Cafe on Broadway. Liu says the other restaurant carries the same kind of food, but also specializes in the Mongolian hot pot, a kind of vegetable-and-meat stew that is cooked in a large pot and then dipped in special sauce before eating. Liu says the dish is "typical in northern China during the winter...