Latest Eat This Newsletter has it all: mac and cheese, sourdough, Indian Indian, microplastics in mothers milk, and the drive to large chain restaurants.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-189-inauthentic/
Totally frustrated trying to update the url of a broken reference link in Wikipedia. After half an hour of well-intentioned getting nowhere, I abandoned my civic duty. If anyone wants it, they can find it themselves.
What a shame. This site had been spam-free since August 7, and then some dork had to show up and ruin it.
Tim Harford's lukewarm review of William MacAskill's book.
If he is right, how could I justify giving £10 to a food bank today when I could set up a charitable trust, let the money accumulate centuries of compound interest before lavishing the proceeds on future generations? Are we morally obliged to live at subsistence levels to maximise the resources available for investment and research so our great-great-great-great-grandchildren will thrive? Such questions have been discussed and analysed at great depth in the literature on climate change. It is surprising to see them waved away with a few sentences here.
Is it that surprising, really?
Very happy to discover that my episode on Garum, Rome's museum of food and cooking, is peaking this week in Nigeria. What are they hearing that you haven't? eatthispodcast.com/garum-museum/
“We must stop giving breadcrumbs and start building bakeries.”
Nice rhetoric. And then ...?