JEH Smith, writing for the Chronicle, observes that "biologically speaking, all cooking is a form of extrasomatic predigestion, beginning a process of breaking down raw food through dicing, boiling, etc., that is subsequently continued by our digestive system". To make such an assertion is not, of course, to assert that, like the starfish, our stomachs are (even occasionally) outside our bodies.
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Starfish are always outside our bodies, unless we've recently eaten a starfish.
Posted by: dz | February 05, 2013 at 08:29 PM