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Jeremy Cherfas

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Jeremy Cherfas

Eat This Newsletter 277: Latest scientific research predicts it is only a matter of time before some valiant entrepreneur offers freeze-dried maggot supplements to gullible eat-like-a- Neanderthal knuckleheads.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-277-empty-calories/

Jeremy Cherfas

I vaguely knew, in a theoretical way, about S-spun and Z-spun yarns, but not about their impact on crochet and knitting. Finally, buried deep within the useless and the slop, a site that was very helpful.

https://yarnsub.com/articles/twist

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-07-22

rabbit_quest geohashing 20250722-W-AY68OD

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Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, two cars, one white and one darker, parked in front of a shuttered shop entrance with a sign that reads

* On foot
* 41.8847, 12.4596
* 22 July 2025
* 423.90 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

If you’re triangulating my location — and why would you? — this is the closest to home I have ever been.

Jeremy Cherfas

Eat This Newsletter 276: Sharp practice is alive and well marketing dairy products to countries in Africa, as Ireland's big dairies know well. Also, food deserts, colourful carrots, garlic seeds, and Neanderthal butchery styles.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-276-diversities/

Jeremy Cherfas

Eat This Newsletter 275

* Neanderthal fat factory; yes they could
* A history of school lunches in the USA; unintended consequences
* Pity the Snack Food Giants; sales plunge
* Big not-so-pink trouble in the rice fields.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-275-infrastructure/

Jeremy Cherfas

Your honesty with yourself and, secondarily, with us, your readers, is impressive. I wish you a tranquil summer.

Jeremy Cherfas

Seeing Aaron's cedar hot tub makes me nostalgic for my own Snorkel hot tub, and makes me wonder what Aaron's source of heat might be. I don't think there's room there for the sunken stove box mine had.

Jeremy Cherfas

Just received a webmention -- micro.blog like -- from 12 February 2019. Strange ...

Jeremy Cherfas

Eat This Newsletter 274: That Administration thwarts its own healthy ambitions, plus ancient avocados, Vietnamese food fraud, and a fight between yeast and sourdough. In the 17th century.

Read (and subscribe?) at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-274-pushmi-pullyu/

Jeremy Cherfas

Top Album artists for the week to 3 July from last.fm

1 Katia Guerreiro 12
2 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong 11
3 Paul Simon 11
4 Randy Newman 8
5 Keith Richards & Levon Helm 1

https://www.last.fm/user/jeremycherfas