The Gastronomer’s Gazette
The world is even more bizarre than you suspect it is. If you want to understand it, you have to look at the pillar of all life: food and drink. Without food and drink, we can’t live. Also, without food and drink, why would you want to? Let me tell you, if wine or cheddar ever runs out, I’m on the first rocket ship out of here. Do you feel the same way? Then this is the podcast for you.
Episodes
Jun 10, 2026
Jun 10, 2026
2 min
It's #AudioMo and we're answering listener questions every day for the month of June.
Today: Is Welsh rarebit just posh cheese on toast?
Jun 9, 2026
Jun 9, 2026
2 min
It's #AudioMo and we're answering listener questions every day for the month of June.
Today: Why are lollipops called that?
Jun 8, 2026
Jun 8, 2026
1 min
It's #AudioMo and we're answering listener questions every day for the month of June.
Today: How much dog is there in a hot dog?
Jun 7, 2026
Jun 7, 2026
1 min
It's #AudioMo and we're answering listener questions every day for the month of June.
Today: Are oranges really green?
Jun 5, 2026
Jun 5, 2026
2 min
It's #AudioMo and we're answering listener questions every day for the month of June.
Today: Why does everybody hate Merlot?
Jun 4, 2026
Jun 4, 2026
2 min
It's #AudioMo and we're answering listener questions every day for the month of June.
Today: What's the deal with airline peanuts?
Jun 3, 2026
Jun 3, 2026
1 min
It's #AudioMo and we're answering listener questions every day for the month of June.
Today: Do slugs have it coming?
Jun 2, 2026
Jun 2, 2026
1 min
It's AudioMo and we're answering listener questions every day for the month of June.
Today: Bananas. Why?
Jun 1, 2026
Jun 1, 2026
1 min
It's AudioMo and we're answering listener questions every day for the month of June.
This audio is so explosive, the Gazette's BlueSky account was immediately suspended when it was linked there. Dare you listen to it?
Jan 28, 2025
Jan 28, 2025
2 min
Cheese is one of the world’s most offensive foods. In fact, given the lack of cheese on any other known planet, it is quite possible there is a universal ban on it.
Such a cheese ban would explain two things...
You're probably thinking, “What’s with the cat and the dinosaur?”
I’ll explain.
You see, the world is even more bizarre than you suspect it is. If you want to see just how bizarre it is, you only have to look at the pillar of all life: food and drink. That is one messed up scene, let me tell you, and a terrific lens through which to examine the human race. After all, without food and drink, we can't live. Also, without food and drink, why would you want to? If wine and cheese ever run out, I'm on the first rocket ship out of here.
So what can and can’t you trust here on The Gastronomer and in the gazette? Well, while I sometimes embellished a handful of the supporting story elements ever so slightly for comedic effect, the facts about food and drink are, as best I can verify, true. Nevertheless, don't go staking your house on them in a bet or anything.
Also I will sometimes go off topic and bring you stories that have only a tenuous link to food and drink, namely: health, fitness, sustainable living and cats. Occasionally, I’ll go completely off script, if I find something that’s just too good to keep from you.
Finally, what’s with the cat and the dinosaur? To be honest, they’re completely random, but they also fit in their own odd way. Cats and dinosaurs are mentioned in the early audio episodes of Wine UnNotes, which became Spierkater’s Gallimaufry, which in turn evolved into The Gastronomer. I needed some quick episode artwork. They were never intended to have any significance beyond that. But they started to grow on me as a representation of… me. The cat is a symbol of my curiosity. The dinosaur is a symbol of, shall we say, my mature status in life? And both no nothing about wine, just like me.
Every Friday morning, there will be a new edition of The Gastronomer’s Gazette (podcast and email dispatch—don’t forget to subscribe. It’s free).
And now for some boring legal stuff.
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