A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
When is a tangerine not a tangerine? When it is a tomato! Italians are embracing tomato diversity as farmers, breeders and eaters select new orange tomatoes to take advantage of loosening seed regulations in the EU.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/orange-toms/
With @matteo_petitti of @retesemi
In honour of last week's 29th annual Golden Spurtle championship, I refer you to two previous epsiodes.
Porridge: Not your usual all-day breakfast https://www.eatthispodcast.com/porridge/ and
Why a spurtle makes a superior porridge stirrer https://www.eatthispodcast.com/spurtle/
Latest Eat This Newsletter has it all: mac and cheese, sourdough, Indian Indian, microplastics in mothers milk, and the drive to large chain restaurants.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-189-inauthentic/
Totally frustrated trying to update the url of a broken reference link in Wikipedia. After half an hour of well-intentioned getting nowhere, I abandoned my civic duty. If anyone wants it, they can find it themselves.
What a shame. This site had been spam-free since August 7, and then some dork had to show up and ruin it.
Very happy to discover that my episode on Garum, Rome's museum of food and cooking, is peaking this week in Nigeria. What are they hearing that you haven't? eatthispodcast.com/garum-museum/
First time I have needed to restore files from @arqbackup in a genuine emergency, and it was such a good experience. Smooth, straightforward, did the job. Phew!
It astonishes me that a fad diet can admonish its followers to "drink the Snake juice" without, apparently, a trace of irony. And that reminds me, whatever happened to oil pulling? Not that I really care.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/fad-diets/
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Finished reading: The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
Two explainers on tomato colour at
https://frogsleapfarm.blogspot.com/2014/04/genetic-control-of-fruit-color-in.html and
http://www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/Tomato/color.html
I cannot recall anything but red tomatoes from my youth. Yellow was dangerously exotic maybe 30 years ago. All that diversity, hiding out of plain sight!
Jeremy Cherfas, Oct 21 2022 on stream.jeremycherfas.net