Jeremy Cherfas

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

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

An intense reflective experience, for the September photo challenge.

An intense reflective experience, for the September photo challenge.

Oof! For the September photo challenge.

Oof! For the September photo challenge.

Red enough? For the September photo challenge

Red enough? For the September photo challenge

A statue, for the September photo challenge, at Nikki de St Phalle’s Tarot Garden

A statue, for the September photo challenge, at Nikki de St Phalle’s Tarot Garden

It is perfectly acceptable to submit a duplicate for the September photo challenge if you have had a long and exhausting day. Glowing.

It is perfectly acceptable to submit a duplicate for the September photo challenge if you have had a long and exhausting day. Glowing.

These chaps in hairy trousers are surely trying to create a panic, for the September photo challenge.

These chaps in hairy trousers are surely trying to create a panic, for the September photo challenge.

Retrospective for September photo challenge.

Retrospective for September photo challenge.

Cycle for the September photo challenge

Cycle for the September photo challenge

Language captured, for the September photo challenge

Language captured, for the September photo challenge

Yonder lies the castle of my father, for the September photo challenge.

Yonder lies the castle of my father, for the September photo challenge.

A panorama for the September photo challenge.

A panorama for the September photo challenge.

Well designed, for the September photo challenge

Well designed, for the September photo challenge

In the bamboo forest for day 5 of the photo challenge

In the bamboo forest for day 5 of the photo challenge

That’s the thing about Lantana, it doesn’t stay orange for long.

That’s the thing about Lantana, it doesn’t stay orange for long.

First outing on the newly fixed up old bicycle, and it was a blast

First outing on the newly fixed up old bicycle, and it was a blast

Latest episode on milk now up at https://eatthispodcast.com/milk

Latest episode on milk now up at https://eatthispodcast.com/milk

The local park is very precious to me

The local park is very precious to me

Having an entertaining time editing Monday’s podcast, the first episode of a new season. It charts the seemingly unstoppable rise of Big Milk, featuring possibly the world’s first celebrity doctor and his equally celebrated First Fad Diet, still going strong today. Sign up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas

Having an entertaining time editing Monday’s podcast, the first episode of a new season. It charts the seemingly unstoppable rise of Big Milk, featuring possibly the world’s first celebrity doctor and his equally celebrated First Fad Diet, still going strong today. Sign up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas

Amazing how much crud buildup there is after 40 years. #mbsept

Amazing how much crud buildup there is after 40 years. #mbsept

The inner side of a very grubby bicycle crankset.

Day 1 September Photoblogging Challenge: abstract

Day 1 September Photoblogging Challenge: abstract

Red, black and light gray. (Close up of barbecue charcoal)

Fitted new Ergonomic grips to the bike, and amazed at how much more comfortable they are. Highly recommended.

Fitted new Ergonomic grips to the bike, and amazed at how much more comfortable they are. Highly recommended.

Still a bit too hot but managed a good little ride through both parts of the park

Still a bit too hot but managed a good little ride through both parts of the park

Rose Chafer beetle, munching on rose pollen.

Rose Chafer beetle, munching on rose pollen.

AI transcriber, you did well to get Mirza Ghasemi, Baba Ganoush and Imam Bayildi correct. Sveaborg is a good approximation of isfidhahaj, as is Sepid Bar for sepidba. But you mangled tahdig repeatedly. For context, the transcript of @labnoon at https://eatthispodcast.com/labnoon

AI transcriber, you did well to get Mirza Ghasemi, Baba Ganoush and Imam Bayildi correct. Sveaborg is a good approximation of isfidhahaj, as is Sepid Bar for sepidba. But you mangled tahdig repeatedly. For context, the transcript of @labnoon at https://eatthispodcast.com/labnoon

Out for a spin and took the opportunity to move my saddle about 1cm back. Makes a difference, in a good way.

Out for a spin and took the opportunity to move my saddle about 1cm back. Makes a difference, in a good way.

We went to the expanded photo section of the V&A and they had a nifty camera obscura.

We went to the expanded photo section of the V&A and they had a nifty camera obscura.

Enjoying putting the finishing touches to tomorrow's podcast with artist Koen van Mechelen in celebration of the International Day of Biological Diversity

Enjoying putting the finishing touches to tomorrow's podcast with artist Koen van Mechelen in celebration of the International Day of Biological Diversity

This one’s for @jean from Douz in Tunisia

This one’s for @jean from Douz in Tunisia

Festa della Liberazione in Rome. Fighting fascism from a bicycle.

Festa della Liberazione in Rome. Fighting fascism from a bicycle.

Eat This Newsletter 203 dishes up nutritional advice, the good side of "artificial", the ongoing goat rodeo and more. Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-203/ and while you're there, consider subscribing.

Eat This Newsletter 203 dishes up nutritional advice, the good side of "artificial", the ongoing goat rodeo and more. Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-203/ and while you're there, consider subscribing.

Chinese cheese recipes from the Ming dynasty brought to life by Miranda Brown @Dong_Muda in the latest episode. So what about the notion that 92% of of Han Chinese exhibit “primary adult lactose malabsorption”? It's complicated. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/chinese-cheese/

Chinese cheese recipes from the Ming dynasty brought to life by Miranda Brown @Dong_Muda in the latest episode. So what about the notion that 92% of of Han Chinese exhibit “primary adult lactose malabsorption”? It's complicated. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/chinese-cheese/

Latest episode ponders the economic mysteries of production in fixed proportions with Wally Thurman. A chicken has two wings, two breasts, two feet &c. How does the market cope? https://eatthispodcast.com/wings

Latest episode ponders the economic mysteries of production in fixed proportions with Wally Thurman. A chicken has two wings, two breasts, two feet &c. How does the market cope? https://eatthispodcast.com/wings

Fine day out, communing with Etruscan shades.

Fine day out, communing with Etruscan shades.

Today’s Cultural Quickie™️

Today’s Cultural Quickie™️

A little further than anticipated. And actual cycling time was about 6 hours.

A little further than anticipated. And actual cycling time was about 6 hours.

Looking forward to another group bike ride today. About 50km including to and from home.

Looking forward to another group bike ride today. About 50km including to and from home.

Very fine day out, in warm spring sunshine, to Lago de Vico, a small caldera lake an hour or north of Rome.

Very fine day out, in warm spring sunshine, to Lago de Vico, a small caldera lake an hour or north of Rome.

Latest newsletter — No. 200 🎂 — asks the tough questions. Is breast “truly best”? Should a Big Mac cost #13? Is food too cheap? Chicken or salmon? Is Ezekial bread awful? Turnips or hothouse tomatoes? https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-200/

Latest newsletter — No. 200 🎂 — asks the tough questions. Is breast “truly best”? Should a Big Mac cost #13? Is food too cheap? Chicken or salmon? Is Ezekial bread awful? Turnips or hothouse tomatoes? https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-200/

Popped up to Bologna for lunch and to see friends who are visiting.

Popped up to Bologna for lunch and to see friends who are visiting.

“Twenty loaves of bread for the cost of a cigarette” Jessica Barnes, author of Staple Security: bread and wheat in Egypt, talks about the subsidy programme and its impact in the latest episode https://eatthispodcast.com/egypt

“Twenty loaves of bread for the cost of a cigarette” Jessica Barnes, author of Staple Security: bread and wheat in Egypt, talks about the subsidy programme and its impact in the latest episode https://eatthispodcast.com/egypt

Latest Eat This Newsletter on eggsorbitent profits (Yes, I'm proud) and eating diversity to prevent extinction, with @DanSaladinoUK and his chums. https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-197-more-or-less/

Latest Eat This Newsletter on eggsorbitent profits (Yes, I'm proud) and eating diversity to prevent extinction, with @DanSaladinoUK and his chums. https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-197-more-or-less/

From the transcript, how @3fonteinen and the farmers it works with are making use of their freedom to use agricultural biodiversity to improve their beer and their self-esteem https://www.eatthispodcast.com/budapest-ohm/

From the transcript, how @3fonteinen and the farmers it works with are making use of their freedom to use agricultural biodiversity to improve their beer and their self-esteem https://www.eatthispodcast.com/budapest-ohm/

Latest episode: One tin of "safe" tuna might contain 10 times more mercury than another. Does that matter? One company thinks it does. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/tuna/

Latest episode: One tin of "safe" tuna might contain 10 times more mercury than another. Does that matter? One company thinks it does. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/tuna/

In the latest Eat This Newsletter: Is food more susceptible to invented traditions than other topics? It sometimes seems so. https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-196-invented-traditions/

In the latest Eat This Newsletter: Is food more susceptible to invented traditions than other topics? It sometimes seems so. https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-196-invented-traditions/

Latest episode: @3Fonteinen and local farmers sharing the risks and profits of making unique beers to build a resilient local grain system. @ECLLD https://eatthispodcast.com/budapest-ohm

Latest episode: @3Fonteinen and local farmers sharing the risks and profits of making unique beers to build a resilient local grain system. @ECLLD https://eatthispodcast.com/budapest-ohm

Eat This Newsletter 195 looks back at the global food crisis, forward to the global food crisis that will be, and sideways at UK porkies and the magic of perpetual broth. https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-195-new-year/

Eat This Newsletter 195 looks back at the global food crisis, forward to the global food crisis that will be, and sideways at UK porkies and the magic of perpetual broth. https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-195-new-year/

Museum life, looking at the details. Freer.

Museum life, looking at the details. Freer.

Part of a Giotto nativity, from Assisi, painted before St Bridget’s vision of the instantaneous and painless birth. Greetings to all.

Part of a Giotto nativity, from Assisi, painted before St Bridget’s vision of the instantaneous and painless birth. Greetings to all.

Very excited for the next episode, which will be live in less than 12 hours.

Very excited for the next episode, which will be live in less than 12 hours.