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Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices

  • Sherman P
  • Billing J
BioScience (1999) 49(6) 453-463
DOI: 10.2307/1313553
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Humans have borrowed plants' chemical "recipes" for evolutionary survival for use in cuisine to combat foodborne microorganisms and to reduce food poisoning

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Sherman, P. W., & Billing, J. (1999). Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices. BioScience, 49(6), 453–463. https://doi.org/10.2307/1313553

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