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link Caveman’s Night Out: Restaurant Offers Paleolithic Cuisine | Fox News.

There’s getting back to your roots and then there’s really getting back to the roots …right to the beginning of upright walking and loincloths!  It’s obvious that new and fresh food themes are harder and harder to find since numerous variations of fusion this or authentic that have been offered as the flavours du jour over the past years.    I’m not even sure why food has to be trendy.  If food is good, its charm will transcend time and the fussy dictates of the self appointed effete food snobs pretending to set food trends as if they were the fashion editors of Vogue.

For the very small group of people for whom experiencing  ‘unique gastronomic masterpieces’ is more important than  a good meal, there will always be that quest for something unique and challenging.  With everyone’s attention spans getting shorter and shorter and the quest for uniqueness more demanding because of marketing exposure and television, truly bizarre foods have hit the mainstream consciousness as being acceptably exotic.  I’m not totally convinced that all edgy foods are in fact gastronomic sensations,  although I do enjoy a hearty plate of chicken’s feet as much as the next guy. 

For example, Adam Zimmern, a very sick man, hosts a food and travel show aptly entitled, Bizarre Foods.   Zimmern travels the world looking to consume delicacies peculiar to a particular geographic region.   And I do mean peculiar.   Naturally, most regions he visits are a bit off the beaten path and away from amenities and ingredients available to the West. Therefore, many of the food items he discovers are those that have been traditionally prepared and passed on from previous generations without benefit of preservatives, artful presentation or even edibleness.  Apart from such delicacies discovered such as brain tacos, stir fried heart or uterus sausages, much amusement is derived solely from watching his contorted expressions as he attempts to consume the yummy treasures.

In the case of Paleolithic Cuisine, whatever they pretend that to be, it’s unlikely this would have any real audience beyond the real hardcore food nutballs.  Let’s face it, food preparation has evolved mightily since the Paleolithic area.  The invention of fire for instance was pretty much the death knell for raw, hairy meat and wriggling grubs.  At least in the civilized world.  When someone discovered that putting a bit of salt and pepper on the gruel helped to make it edible, another great leap forward in cuisine happened.  It’s somewhat hard to believe that our Paleolithic ancestors sat around a candlelit rock slab eating smoked salmon, gluten free bread and dipping into olive tapenade as the article suggests.  In any event, in today’s world, they may serve stone age food, but I bet they charge space age prices.   Did they tip 15% in those days too?  The closest I want to get to Paleolithic food is medium rare beef.  The rest of the past is better left there.