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Jeremy Cherfas

2025-08-26

Rabbit Quest 20250825-W-BM21TF

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Composite image; on the left a map of the Rabbit and my location, on the right a view across a slate-tiled roof to a white chimney with three chimney pots. More slate roofs in the middle distance and a patch of blue sea in the distance. The sky is blue and there is part of a bushy tree on the left.

* On foot
* Location: 50.459076, -3.510636
* Monday 25 August 2025
* 422.21 ppm CO2
 
Rich residences behind high walls.

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-08-17

Rabbit_quest geohashing 20250817-W-BM21TF

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Composite image; one the left a map of the Rabbit and my location, on the right a view up a house driveway with a large Phormium at the end, a stone wall on the left and another house and its driveway on the right. Parts of two parked cars left and right.

* On foot
* Location: 50.472839, -3.523942
* Sunday 17 August 2025
* 422.35 ppm CO2
 
Many contour lines crossed.

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-07-22

rabbit_quest geohashing 20250722-W-AY68OD

1 min read

Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, two cars, one white and one darker, parked in front of a shuttered shop entrance with a sign that reads

* On foot
* 41.8847, 12.4596
* 22 July 2025
* 423.90 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

If you’re triangulating my location — and why would you? — this is the closest to home I have ever been.

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-05-19

rabbit_quest #geohashing 20250516-W-AY68O8

1 min read

Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, a view across some long grass in flower with a central tree that may be a Holm Oak and some umbrella pines on the right. The sky is very blue.

* On foot
* 41.8814, 12.4388
* 16 May 2025
* 427.73 ppm CO2
OpenStreetMap

Another one a nice walk away in the other part of the local park. Had to walk through some lovely long grass to get there.

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-05-16

rabbit_quest #geohashing 20250506-W-AY68O8

1 min read

Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, a view under some umbrella pines with patchy grass and a bare path in the foreground. In the middle distance is a small enclosure of bright orange mesh netting.

* On foot
* 41.884599, 12.448835
* 5 May 2025
* 427.68 ppm CO2
OpenStreetMap

It’s been a while, in more ways than one. Here’s a quest from 10 days ago.

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-05-12

New episode: Puglia

1 min read

Typical vegetables of puglia in a ceramic bowl decorated with a green border. Barattiere are round, pale-green melons, eaten unripe like a cucumber. Carrots cay be purple, yellow or orange. And sporchia are the dark purple shoots of a broomrape parasitic on broad beans.

Direct from Polignano a Mare, Flavia Giordano's love letter to Puglia's unique foods and ingredients, including some remarkable biodiversity. Melons eaten unripe, colourful carrots, and sporchia, a broomrape parasitic on broad beans.

https://eatthispodcast.com/puglia

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-05-05

Eat This Newsletter 269

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“Salt is a powerful thing. It ensures well-being, it cures, it pleases guests, and it attracts males. And it was brought from a mystical garden. To teach girls how to manage this power must have been an ongoing challenge for the elders.”

Read (and subscribe) at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-269-salted-butter/

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-04-28

Latest episode: The Paradox of Plenty

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Food has become cheaper and more abundant over the past 70 years or so by ignoring external costs. As a result, our planet and our health have suffered untold damage. Is it even possible to turn the food system around? Listen at https://eatthispodcast.com/paradox

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-04-15

1 min read

The Jolly Green Giant reclining in front of tiny farmers, except he is red and has cloven hooves.

New episode: Farming’s Overlords. The top four companies globally control more than 60% of the inputs modern farmers need: machines, seeds, chemicals. That concentration, plus their size, gives them unprecedented power.

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/titans

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-02-15

1 min read

Unfortunately Google was a good one to resurface from this day in 2006, and of course the original inspiration is still up. I played again, and the results were not nearly as interesting or varied as they were all those years ago.