Slow Food special in Naples. Good veg antipasto and sublime pasta Al genovese.
Eat This Newsletter 297: Proudly Inefficient
This time around, efficiency is a very poor metric when it comes to cooking, supply chains, microwaves and breakfast.
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Top Albums from last.fm on 01/03/26
1, Bill Frisell, Nashville, (14);
2, Bill Frisell, Good Dog, Happy Man, (12);
3, Schubert; Daniel Barenboim, Impromptus, (8);
4, Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli with The Quintet of the Hot Club of France, Souvenirs, (2);
5, Various Artists, Cardinals At The Window, (2);
Information wants to be surveiled - net.wars
No way home.
Lying here somewhat stunned by Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know. Such a perfect novel, so finely constructed, and in the end so deeply satisfying. A glorious read.
One reason I love RSS is that the cost of keeping a feed in a reader is essentially zero. So when someone pops up after a gap of -- checks notes -- 5 years, 10 months, 8 days I know about it and can respond appropriately.
Happy Blog Birthday, Rebsie, and welcome back.
2026-02-24
New Episode: The Food System Is Not Broken
1 min read
Some people will tell you the food system is broken. Not so, say Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg. Their new book is subtitled Why Industrial Food Is Good and How To Make It Even Better.
We had a long and interesting chat, everything from cellular agriculture to labour in the food industry.
Very impressive.