So You Think Robots Are Coming for Your Job? They Probably Aren't.

There’s a good case to be made that cooking was one of humanity’s first jobs. According to some anthropologists, around 1.8 million years ago early humans developed the technology to control fire, enabling them to transform raw food into nutrient-dense, easily digestible meals that powered energy-intensive brains that eventually gave rise to civilization as we know it.

Control of fire was one of humanity’s earliest cooking technologies. Later technologies like knives, plumbing, soap, and...