Jeremy Cherfas

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

Eat This Newsletter 277: Latest scientific research predicts it is only a matter of time before some valiant entrepreneur offers freeze-dried maggot supplements to gullible eat-like-a- Neanderthal knuckleheads.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-277-empty-calories/

I vaguely knew, in a theoretical way, about S-spun and Z-spun yarns, but not about their impact on crochet and knitting. Finally, buried deep within the useless and the slop, a site that was very helpful.

https://yarnsub.com/articles/twist