29: Light and Sweet Spoons

This week it is Branden discussing space station microbes, yogurt liqueur, music for wine, kimchi contamination and taste perception.

Show notes:

[Space Station Live: Microbiome Experiment
YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN_JUv2wTY8)

Does space travel effect the human microbiome? NASA is running experiments to find out.

[Would You Try Yogurt Liqueur?
Serious Eats](https://drinks.seriouseats.com/2013/06/bols-yogurt-liqueur-review.html)

Smells like yogurt and tastes like booze.

[SHED Fermentation Bar
North Bay Bohemian](https://www.bohemian.com/northbay/shed-fermentation-bar/Content?oid=2438277)

Kombucha straight from the tap.

Music for vines claimed to improve wine production - The West Australian

German wine maker plays music for his fermenting grapes in an attempt to make fuller bodied wines.

[Maybe that fermentation ain’t working so well; 1,642 sickened; outbreak of E. coli O169 in schoolchildren associated with consumption of kimchi, Korea, 2012
barfblog](https://barfblog.com/2013/06/maybe-that-fermentation-aint-working-so-well-1642-sickened-outbreak-of-e-coli-o169-in-schoolchildren-associated-with-consumption-of-kimchi-korea-2012/)

E. Coli in Korean kimchi?

[Outbreak of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli O169 enteritis in schoolchildren associated with consumption of kimchi, Republic of Korea, 2012
Cambridge Journals Online](https://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8944818)

Journal article of Korean kimchi outbreak.

[The taste of cutlery: how the taste of food is affected by the weight, size, shape, and colour of the cutlery used to eat it
Flavour Journal PDF](https://www.flavourjournal.com/content/pdf/2044-7248-2-21.pdf)

Food tastes different depending on what utensil is used to eat it.

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