Before cup-a-soup

  Apparently, the earliest pots turned up about twenty thousand years ago. Twenty fucking thousand! That's mental. Some pot shards from about fifteen thousand years ago gave up their secrets to give us an idea of some early pot cooking and it looks like these early cooks were turning out soup. Yummy fish soup. Salmon to be exact.

  The shards I'm on about were found where we now find Japan and it's interesting to note that cooking in pots started long before any farming had started. Before farming! Ten thousand years before farming! As you can tell I'm struggling to get my head around how long ago they were making soup but I'll get over it.

Today, I was mostly making furniture.

  Making soup in pots had a massive advantage nutritionally speaking. While grilling, the lovely juices with all the nutritious oils etc would flow away or burn but with a pot, everything was contained.

  As an extra bonus, food that was grilling had to be watched and turned so it didn't burn, but a pot could be just put on the embers and left while the cooks went off to their zumba class or whatever.

  I only just came across this and would have more for you but I was building the above wooden structure and... Well, er, the dog ate my homework. Anyway, twenty bastard thousand years!​​​​​​​

Kirk out

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