Impressed that you found Valentino. One of our favourite places when we are around that neighbourhood.

New issue of Eat This Newsletter is up and available, with thoughts on lead-poisoning in baby foods, declining nutrition in cereal crops, dietary advice on ultraprocessed foods, a rumination on rural repair and a late entrant to tosh techno-fix of the year.

All at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-225-the-world-turns/

I know I have left this very late, but I wonder whether anyone has recommendations for a good place to dine on New Year's Eve in Dublin?

Today's Eat This Newsletter has a couple of items about quinoa, takes a closer look at red-fleshed apples and rounds up some slightly delayed takes on Thanksgiving. Read it at

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-224-life-happens/

These 40 questions -- in my case direct from Chuck Grimmett -- could make for a satisfying end-of-year exercise and maybe even an IndieWeb carnival topic.

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Currently reading: Billy Phelan's Greatest Game by William Kennedy, ISBN: 9780140063400

#Fiction

Interesting to come across Bryan Lehrer's piece on the same day as Ben Werdmuller's. Personal histories, both focussed on building for the internet, sorta, and both coming, I think, to the same conclusion: money is essential and money spoils everything.

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Very interesting personal history from @benwerd ... and here I remain, ready and willing to move from one-off donations to paying a real price for WithKnown.

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I fundamentally disagree. My best days start slowly, with hydration (tea), a little light scrolling, some internal planning and generally enjoying a bit of peace and quiet and loving company. An hour will do.