A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Eat This Newsletter 281, where food is so much more than just something to eat.
* How do we change the way we eat?
* Fungi to biofortify wheat
* In Kashmir, bread and lotus flowers
* Senegal's madd for local development
* Metal mouth and blanched basil
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-281-food-plus/
Brad DeLong boosted this, and I am very glad he did, because it deserves a very wide hearing. (And understanding? Or would that be too much to ask?)
https://chadorzel.substack.com/p/dohble-blind-trials-are-a-sign-of?utm_source=cross-post&publica...
Be the first to find out about this one quick trick "to help stop or reduce irreversible planetary overheating".
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Eat This Newsletter 280: colonial cultural history of two very different items, a gift to UPF regulation, English farmers' shattered dreams, and too much disturbing food safety news.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-280-gordian/
What do absinthe and upland rice have in common?
Answers in tomorrow’s Eat this Newsletter. Subscribe at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas#subscribe-form?tag=direct
What has the Assumption of the Virgin Mary to do with the middle of August? Is she just another in a long line of Mother Goddesses? Why is Virgo carrying a wheatsheaf?
Some answers in https://www.eatthispodcast.com/our-daily-bread-15/ from my month of daily podcasts on wheat in 2018
Podcasters: About to record my first episode using Zoom. I normally record from FaceTime and Skype (RIP) mix-minus to my DAW. It is worth doing the same as a backup for Zoom’s local recording?
I guess I'm asking how reliable is Zoom's local recording.
Eat This Newsletter 279: No Excuses
An attack on industrial agriculture.
Science-based fisheries management works.
Beware the poppy seed, and dodgy drug tests.
Read it at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-279-no-excuses/
What a rare treat. Someone recommends an episode of a podcast I don't subscribe to. I go to the page in question. I like the look of it. I attempt to Huffudff the episode. It Just Works. I carry on about my business. The end.
I'm not sure I ever forgot how to surf the web, but in case you have, David Cain spells it out at his blog Raptitude: https://www.raptitude.com/2025/06/how-to-surf-the-web-in-2025-and-why-you-should/
And in keeping with his advice, I got there from Tim Bray's latest collection of Long Links: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/04/Long-Links
I would also repeat: use RSS