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Cooking for Seamus: celebrities and chefs clamour to cook for a disabled bull in this irresistible show

The YouTube series is a lo-fi celebration of cuisine-as-care, starring a disabled rescue bull in regional Victoria who is obsessed with human food, and his best friend and carerGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe YouTube comedy docuseries Cooking for Seamus has an irresistible premise: what if a huge disabled bull named Seamus was a food critic, on a cooking show that catered entirely to his sensibilities and tastes? The result is a show that’s not only eccentric and funny, but an utterly delightful meditation on the importance of food and care and community, featuring a very hungry animal.Seamus is a disabled bull who lives with palsy; when he was born he was considered too sick to live, but was saved by an animal rescuer, his “mum” BJ, who also pops up through the show. For months Seamus couldn’t even stand up or lift his head to feed, and as a result, quickly became enamoured with “human” food – and in large amounts. Continue reading...

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