Dear Bird Iron, your message was quite moving - I've received so many positive and encouraging replies but I have to say a huge thank you for not only sharing the bug observations but also your thoughts regarding the lore and concepts in the game.
Your message deserves a longer reply - and I will come back to it to do so - but I just wanted to say for now that I received it earlier today and it made my day. It also gave me a whole bunch of bugs/issues to add to the to-do list, and I'm very pleased to say that I think I've managed to solve them all (some of them were overlaps with other bug reports of the same issues).
So please keep an eye out for the next build - it will be out tonight all going well with my unit tests that are running now. As usual I am writing up a devlog and you'll get a special mention, of course. When I get a bit of a spare moment tomorrow I will also reply to your more substantive insights about the philosophy of food (SO interesting!!) and how I came to discover terroir and the ideas in the game (in short: I did a mini lit review of sorts and it took me down some rabbit holes, leading to the discovery of these evidently arcane/niche concepts). I'm an academic by trade myself so naturally when I want to find out something, I start a Zotero project for it, like any normal person.
Anyway, you'll see in the devlog patch notes that I've very much taken your suggestions on board, and so there's quite a bit there to unpack! More soon and thank you so much again - I'm so happy it's brought you some magic