[Sca-cooks] Very Early Chinese Cuisine

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Sep 8, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Johnna Holloway wrote:

> The article is titled
> "In Taming Dogs, Humans May Have Sought a Meal" and it appears in
> today's New York Times.
> A new study proposes "A new study of dogs worldwide, the largest of  
> its kind, suggests a different answer, one that any dog owner is  
> bound to find repulsive: wolves may have first been domesticated for  
> their meat." The place was southern China 11000 to 14000 years ago.
> It also notes "There is a long tradition of eating dogs in southern  
> China, where dog bones with cut marks on them have been found at  
> archaeological sites."
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/science/08dogs.html?_r=1&ref=science

I understood that chihuahuas were bred to a miniature size to make  
them more practical as meat animals. Imagine the ferocity of a  
Chihuahua Of The Baskervilles, after all...

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