Every Tuesday we find an expert to answer weird questions you may have about the world and why it works the way it does.
Tonight: why do we cook food? What changes, chemically, when we cook our food? Were our bodies designed to eat raw or cooked food -- and why do fried foods just taste so good?
Associate professor in the department of food science at the University of Otago, Dr Graham Eyres, joins Nights to explain.
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