The Raw and the Cooked

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For the music album, see The Raw and the Cooked (album).

The Raw and the Cooked is the title of a volume from Mythologiques I-IV written by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. The original French title was Le Cru et le cuit.

Mythologiques I-IV (trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman
- Le Cru et le cuit, 1964, The Raw and the Cooked, 1969
- Du meil aux cendres, 1966, From Honey to Ashes, 1973
- L'Origine des manières de table, 1968, The Origin of Table Manners, 1978
- L'Homme nu, 1971, The Naked Man, 1981)

The English translation of Le cru et le cuit by Claude Lévi-Strauss, is not incorrect, but it is perhaps incomplete. "Cuit" in French does not necessarily mean "cooked", but is also used to denote "done" , which is not necessarily obtained by cooking. Strawberries, for instance, may be "cuit" (done) because they were standing in sugar.