Fermentation is hot.
Topics in this episode include Davy Byrne’s moral pub, Nosey Flynn, Noah and the curse of Ham, Plumtree’s Potted Meat, cannibalism, missionaries who get eaten by cannibals, long pig, Reverend MacTrigger, lapses in Leopold Bloom’s empathy, the Jesuits’ mission of conversion, colonialism, Yom Kippur, food as an expression of religion, mity cheese, why Bloom chooses cheese, sunyata, why it’s extremely anachronistic for Bloom to seek cheese, a brief history of indigenous Irish cheese, why no one ate cheese in Dublin in 1904, the 20th century revival of Irish cheese, burgundy, and sexy, sexy fermentation.
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