Fermented foods have been around for millennia, long before modern microbiology and food hygiene practices.
That tells me the microbial colonies are resilient to any harmful pathogens introduced by getting your dirty hands involved. Isn’t that precisely the point?
This is how I discovered Safari on iOS has a hard limit of 500 open tabs. Rather horrifyingly, when you try to open tab number 501, it asks if you want to close all open tabs.
Fascinating read. What a privilege to have traveled the world at a time when modernity made doing so possible cheaply, but hadn’t yet taken ahold of the destinations. A historic window of opportunity that’s all but closed.