The 32 Ingredients Podcast

Food, Glorious, Stone Age Food! - Episode 5

The 32 Ingredients Podcast

Show Notes

Ciarán takes a culinary look at the earliest meals in Ireland's past, from bear and reindeer carved up on the ice, to the scallop scoffers of 9,000 years ago, up to the intestinal discomfort of lactose intolerant farmers!

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