Skip to main content

Jeremy Cherfas

A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.

jeremycherfas.net

jeremycherfas

EatPodcast

eatthispodcast

pnut.io/@jeremycherfas

micro.blog/jeremycherfas

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

Jeremy Cherfas

Very fine survey and assessment of the effects of blue-blocking spectacles on sleep. My screens are less blue in the evening, but I also take 1mg of melatonin every night, and that seems to work for me. Plus, the dreams. Oh, the dreams.

Jeremy Cherfas

This month's IndieWeb Movie Club suggestion is Triplets of Bellville, the first one to have tempted me. I happen to know that the whole thing is on YT, in segments, having watched it while stuck in an empty B&B a couple of years ago. Very tempted.

Jeremy Cherfas

Currently reading: Civilisations by Laurent Binet and Sam Taylor, ISBN: 978-1473577091

Huge fun, recommended by a friend to whom I raved about Cahokia Jazz.

Jeremy Cherfas

Eat This Newsletter 273

Number one question: In the 17th century, did the Dutch really brush their teeth with butter?

And a bunch of other morsels.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn273-buttery/

Jeremy Cherfas

Pellagra is a dietary deficiency disease that ends in madness and death. And at one time was responsible for half the inmates in Italian asylums and 100,000 deaths a year in the US. Now it is all but forgotten.

https://eatthispodcast.com/pellagra

Jeremy Cherfas

“I never relinquished my desire to hop a train, I just stopped pursuing it.”

Very disappointed, in the end, by this article, which I had hoped might tell me about the reality of riding the rails today.

Instead, a bit like me, the writer just gave up on the dream.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05/09/the-hobo-handbook/