Jeremy Cherfas

Checked into Gasthaus Woracziczky

Superb traditional food. Ham with fresh horseradish. Rostbraten. Beer.

so good I went back the next day. Perfect fried chicken.

Latest Eat This Newsletter includes:

Can you talk about the hummus wars when there is an actual war on?

School food in Nairobi

Global — and Californian — production of calories

Silent Doritos

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/223-enough-to-go-around/

Monday was the 80th anniversary of the roundup and deportation to Auschwitz of the Jews of Rome. That much I knew as I was planning this episode. More recent events took me and everyone else completely by surprise. Then I had two days of network outage, so here’s the latest podcast, on the Jewish Food of Rome. https://eatthispodcast.com/jewish-food

Replied to a post on one.mikro2nd.net :

"You could literally take a hungry climate refugee and put them in the middle of a field of food, and they’d still starve to death." Interesting take, with which I fully agree. I wonder how the writer might feel about Chris Smaje's Small Farm Future?

The wholeness of the word: 'Regenesis' as myth, Part II | Chris Smaje

”Plants are energised by zero-carbon, zero-cost sunlight, whereas factory-produced microbial biomass is energised by generated electricity at an energetic cost amounting to at least an order of magnitude more.”

Not going to quibble about that order of magnitude greater than zero. The point is very well made: Proposed ecomodernist solutions to future food supply are not solutions at all.

And it's out, the latest issue of Eat This Newsletter https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/linked/

A slew of stories from around the web, each of them connected to at least one of the others because that's the way of the food and agriculture system.

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/linked/

Always feels good to finish tomorrow's Eat This Newsletter a little early. Sign up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/ if you would like my take on nice rice, Big Food, gin, tomatoes and brassicas.

Diane Purkiss’ new book English Food: A People’s History is an amazing look at what and how the English ate, past and present. I wanted to talk about what happened when the English did not have enough to eat. Take a listen at https://eatthispodcast.com/food-riots

Finished reading: English Food: A People's History by Diane Purkiss, ISBN: 9780007255566

#Non-fiction

Currently reading: English Food: A People's History by Diane Purkiss, ISBN: 9780007255566

#Non-fiction