Jeremy Cherfas

Our Daily Bread 02; Boil in the Bag http://ow.ly/WIsU30leAFe When did we start to eat wheat? "There's no proof yet that the Neanderthal in Shanidar actually swallowed the porridge, but he definitely put it in his mouth."

My contribution to the Dog Days of Podcasting, every day in August. http://ow.ly/luL830leqsV Our Daily Bread 01; The Abundance of Nature Jack Harlan's experiments on the slopes of the Karacadağ mountains in Turkey offer a perfect gateway to this exploration of the history of bread and wheat.

More than tripled in six hours. It really is hot.

Santa Costanza; impossible to do it justice.

Just part of this morning’s fun. Yvette Klein reflects on technicians restoring? Pino Pascali’s 32 mq di mare circa. The restoration and show @lagallerianazionale really is exciting and stimulating.

Heading past the baker’s tomb on the way to have some fun.

Solid tidying on the terrace. Not that you can tell ...

Threshing machine.

Happy student bread bakers means I am happy.

Serious show and tell from @clinklucy with @candicesmithcorby and @williampettit72 and their super bunch of students

Not just any old tomato. Story to follow, eventually, when they ripen fully.

If only it were that easy.

Still not our hotel.

Not our hotel.

Duck breast with “salty sour cherry pie” and it was very fine.

Toy soldiers on parade.

The Main Squeeze.

Shut out.

Art is exhausting.

Alas all the little bunches that held so much promise a couple of months ago shrivelled and browned. Maybe the flowers need cross-pollinating? But the vine continues to give great pleasure.

Delicious - but a little small, surely.

How not to do a social media stream

How not to do a social media stream

Glory be. The dark-leaved canna has bloomed.

Because I can.

Magic light this evening.

Community supply of water, fizzy and natural. So sensible, and much cheaper than branded.

Stranded.

Fishies.

Just reward after scaling Monte Epemeo from sea level.

This’ll do nicely.

Nearly there.

And continues

So it begins.

Thank you, Ottolenghi

Two perfect fillets of ricciola, which may or may not be a kind of amberjack, centre of a really good meal last night.

Might be time to come out early tomorrow to harvest caper buds.

Ecce Roma. The only city I know of in which public shared bicycles were a total failure demonstrates that private shared bicycles don’t stand much of a chance either. Dickwads.

Result!

I feel there ought to be a sorrel-harvesting song, but there probably isn’t.

The watering system is functional again.

Same image, from quill.p3k.io, this time with some content and a tag. No slug. Comes through as untitled otherwise.

Baked up lovely. Tastes good too.

#sourdough #kalonji #nigella

First night outside of the summer with @clinklucy

Experimental 50% wholemeal with kalonji, looking good after 12 hours in the fridge.

#sourdough #nigella #kalonji

Experimental 50% wholemeal with kalonji, looking good after 12 hours in the fridge.

#sourdough #nigella #kalonji

Oops. I suppose it must be summer.

#sourdough #leaven

Today’s workplace.