Latest episode, I talk to Eleanor Barnett's about her book Leftovers, which made me think that wasting food is the default human behaviour. Only shortage can stop us doing it. Her solution is to advocate for a new appreciation of the value of food. Is there time?
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
TIL: a well-known and well-regarded weekly podcast that puts out 40 episodes a year is made by four people each working a full-time eight-hour day. That's a lot of time.
Eat This Newsletter 237: Shredded
Which is more, 45 gallons or 720 cups? Trick question, obvs; they're equal. Either way, Americans have never drunk as much milk as they did in 1945, and bird flu is just a blip in the decline.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-237-shredded/
Making art of any kind will always attract the curious, and children can be especially helpful until they suddenly lose interest.
Getting errors from the web mention service I use and need to work out why, so trying from here to see whether anything will be be received at https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/make-it-simpler
New episode: What is Chametz?
The Hebrew Bible singles out five grains for special treatment. Two are easy: wheat and barley. Modern science may help identify the other three, but will that change centuries of custom and tradition.
https://eatthispodcast.com/chametz
Latest newsletter revisits Passover and asks a fifth question: if you are an observant Jewish sourdough baker, what do you do with your starter over Passover?
Questions too for sustainable fish, citrus salads and livestock emissions.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-236-leavened/
2024-04-20
Belated #rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240418-W-AY68O8
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* On foot
* 41.882223, 12.448771
* Thursday 18 April, 2024
* 424.12 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
In the park, and well off my normal paths.
Cream crackered after spending an hour and a half trying to separate a well overgrown and neglected canna lily from its concrete trough. Very hard going, but now that I have replanted a few offsets, I am taking a well earned break.
TIL about using the Python calendar module from Terminal. What magic is this?
https://docs.python.org/3/library/calendar.html#calendar-cli