The reason for having so many cooking recipes is hunger and boredom. But maybe that taste boredom comes from our nature telling us “move from here and find other place to live”
What about the need to eat different foods to get a variety of nutrients? Or else we’d just eat the same thing every day and die.
Hence the taste boredom. I think it is our bodies telling us that something else must be eaten. But that comes from before farming so the answer to “change what you eat” is “change where you live”.
Maybe the other way around? Like the genes that survived were the ones that coded for curiosity in terms of food; encouraging early humans to explore and find more nutrient rich food to feed bigger brains. So not that our bodies ‘told us’, but we selected for the humans with those genes, and they were the ones that won out in the end.
If the genes didn’t pushed humans to move then always eating the same would be a diet problem in the long term. So a chicken-egg problem. Did the genes push humanity to move or did the genes that didn’t push ended up killing the other group? But if you think about it, there are still people that “can” live for years eating always the same. So maybe not everyone from that group ended up dying.
A lot of it is also necessity. When all you have is three random ingredients, you make a thing with those three ingredients.
But you try to cook them in different ways.
