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Grinding, fermenting, and detoxifying our way to bigger brains — an anthropologist makes the case that food processing, historically women s work, did as much for human evolution as the mammoth-spearing got credit for. Speaking of transforming raw ingredients into something civilization-defining: a Japanese temple has been quietly perfecting vegan cooking for 700 years, no marketing Continue…