Humans have been cooking fish for almost 1 million years!

[Alligatorob]

Well, 780,000 but close enough. I found this interesting, and I cooked fish just yesterday. Apparently a longer tradition than I realized.

Ancient fish teeth reveal earliest sign of cooking
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63596141

 

[Tish]

That's really interesting.

 

[senior chef]

Somewhere along the line, humans also developed smoking fish and storing them as dried fish for future eating.
Instead of merely following herds of animals. once food was dried, it allowed ancient peoples to range further and further in search of better living spaces.

 

[Alligatorob]

That long ago the humans would have been different from us, probably Homo erectus, it was even before Neanderthals (I think).

Somewhere along the line, humans also developed smoking fish and storing them as dried fish for future eating.

I wonder if these were smoked, the way it is described is a lower temperature cooking.

 

[Chet]

No catch and release back then.