"No one here will be surprised to hear me say that the Promethean fire which first raised humanity above the animal was the cooking fire."
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Brian Stableford, The Last Supper, in David G. Hartwell (ed.) Year's Best SF 6, p. 108 (Originally published in Science Fiction Age, March 2000)
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