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Q3:
But if the main function of spices is
to make food safer to eat, how did our ancestors know which ones to use in the
first place? It seems likely that people who happened to add spice plants to
meat during preparation, especially in hot climates, would have been less
likely to suffer from food poisoning than those who did not.
Also, families that used appropriate spices would rear a greater number of more healthy offspring, to whom spice-use traditions had been demonstrated, and who possessed appropriate taste receptors.
In other words,
there is a significant positive correlation between mean temperature and the
average quantity of spices used in cooking.
Spice users may
also have been able to store foods for longer before they spoiled, enabling
them to tolerate longer periods of scarcity. Observation and imitation of the
eating habits of these healthier individuals by others could spread spice use
rapidly through a society.
Our survey of
recipes from around the world confirmed this hypothesis: we found that
countries with higher than average temperatures used more spices.
Indeed, in hot countries
nearly every meat-based recipe calls for at least one spice, and most include
many spices, whereas in cooler ones, substantial proportions of dishes are
prepared without spices, or with just a few
Q4:
Johnson signed the contract for the Dictionary with the bookseller Robert
Dosley at a breakfast held at the Golden Anchor Inn near Holborn Bar on 18 June
1764.
Up
until his time, the task of producing a dictionary on such a large scale had
seemed impossible without the establishment of an academy to make decisions
about right and wrong usage.
Johnson
was a poet and critic who raised common sense to the heights of genius.
He
was to be paid £1,575 in instalments, and from this he took money to rent 17 Gough Square , in
which he set up his 'dictionary workshop'.
His
approach to the problems that had worried writers throughout the late
seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was intensely practical.
Johnson
decided he did not need an academy to settle arguments about language; he would
write a dictionary himself; and he would do it single-handed.
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