Full Idea
Lévi-Strauss made canonic to French structuralism the idea that human culture could be understood through a series of binary oppositionsn - the difference between what could be eaten raw and what cooked being one of the most fundamental.
Gist of Idea
Basic to human culture are binary oppositions, such as eating raw or cooked
Source
report of Claude Lévi-Strauss (works [1950]) by T.H. Green - Prolegomena to Ethics 1
Book Reference
Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.32
A Reaction
My guess is that such oppositions can often be illuminating, but will always be eventually judged as too simplistic.