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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

1 min read

“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

1 min read

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.

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-01-14

#rabbit_quest #geohashing 20250114-W-AY68O8

1 min read

Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, looking up over a wall topped with greenery (plumbago, maybe) at three balconies on the side of a brick apartemnt building. One of the balconies has a few plants on it.

* On foot
* 41.879539, 12.449281
* 14 January 2025
* 426.1 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

One of the things I really like about Rabbit Quest: gives me a target to walk to that is out of my customary loop. This is on the other side of the park, which I do not visit often.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-12-26

1 min read

A tin of Swedish ansjovis with the lid half open showing the silvery fish within. The background is an unopened tin, prink with yellow lettering and two red fish on it.

Not to be overshadowed by Rita Hayworth and Gilda, the latest Eat This Podcast also looks into The Swedish Conundrum.

What are Swedes getting when they open a tin of “ansjovis”? Not anchovies. Or at least, not Engraulis encrasicolus.

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/gilda/

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-12-24

rabbit_quest #geohashing 20241224-W-AY68OD

1 min read

Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, the Colosseum, an ancient Roman brick and stone structure with three tiers of arches and a top tier with rectangular window openings.

* On bus
* 41.889492, 12.491804
* 26 December 2024
* 425.45 ppm CO2
OpenStreetMap

My first drive-by rabbit. And I only noticed it once I was on the bus and looking distractedly at my phone. Probably doesn't count in the greater scheme of things, but what the heck.