I read it, made my wife read it, and have told at least six other people to read it. To my (lay) understanding of metabolism, biology and evolution, he makes a compelling case for the notion that we are human because we cook, not that we cook because we are human. He spends a couple chapters politely laying waste to rawists and vegetarians, pointing out that yes, you can get all the nutrition you need as a vegetarian but only if you have ready access to prepared foods made with a great deal of processing and energy concentration and that even the most dedicated rawists will run out of gas after a few years because simply put, chimpanzees spend about two hours a day chewing and their guts are three times the size of ours. Please read it. I'm curious to hear some holes poked in it.