Even Older Polish Cookery for Complete Beginners: Difference between revisions

  }}</ref> And even these were most likely copied from even older tablets, now lost to time. You see, this is the thing with recipes: they're much more likely to be copied than written from scratch. In Polish, the word for "recipe" is ''"przepis"'', which literally means "something that is rewritten". Oftentimes the copyist will add something to the recipe, or perhaps makes some abridgements, redactions or modifications -- thus allowing the recipe to evolve. In pre-Internet times, culinary recipes were probably some of the best examples of memes, or units of cultural evolution.<ref>Many people think of memes as nothing but silly pictures shared on the Internet, but they are, in fact, as old as human culture itself. The Internet is only a new medium for memes to spread in, faster than ever before. The notion of memes, as cultural equivalents of genes, was coined by the famous biologist Prof. Richard Dawkins in 1976 (when the Interent was still in its infancy) who wanted to show that you also can study evolution outside biology ({{Cyt  

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