Jeremy Cherfas

* 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.

* 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.

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

“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/

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

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

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.

* 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.

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/

* 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.