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.
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Episodes
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
The Romans added fermented fish to their wine to improve its flavour. If that was an improvement, can you imagine how bad Roman wine must have tasted to begin with?Rotted fish isn't the worst thing they added to their wine.And one particular additive is thought to have brought down the entire Empire.
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Have you ever been to the Yunessun Spa Resort in Hakone in Japan? Nor me. But it sounds like a terrific place. If you want, someone will stand by the side of the pool and throw a bucket of red wine at you.
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
There is a place a place where they consume so much wine, they need the intervention of Einstein's Theory of Relativity to squeeze all their wine drinking into the time available to them.
Where? How?
Find out in this episode of Spierkater's Gallimaufry.
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Wine is fat- and cholesterol-free. So by that measure it's practically a health drink. But it is laden with calories. Which begs the question, "How far could you run on a bottle of wine?" Curious? Let's find out.
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Before Hippocrates, medicine was in the hands of the gods, which, let's be honest, is no proper way to run a healthcare system. Hippocrates changed all that. He revolutionised medicine. How he did it will shock you. Was wine involved?
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Edward IV was king of England twice. You'd think that would make him both Edward IV and Edward V. But, no. That's not how royal accountancy works. What a pity.Edward IV's first spell on the throne was ended by a plot in which his brother George was complicit. The plot failed. Once back on the throne, Edward IV (v.2.0) ordered a colossal amount of wine and got his revenge.
Curious? Good. Hit the play button.
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
What do grapes, the Deccan Traps and the death of the dinosaurs have in common? Were grapes used as bait in the traps? Also, what the are the Deccan Traps?
Saturday Jul 23, 2022
Saturday Jul 23, 2022
How much wine is too much? The Ancient Greeks had a special cup that told you...
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Scientists have come up with a brutal test to find out whether a berry is a true berry...
Thursday Jul 07, 2022
Thursday Jul 07, 2022
In this episode, we're going to mix cocaine and wine.
You're probably thinking that putting cocaine in wine sounds:
a) mad
and
b) very illegal indeed.
Strap yourself in, because in the mid-1800s, it was considered neither of those 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.
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