Eat This Newsletter 270

Eggflation excuses, the sad saga of the British sliced loaf, what to grow in a nuclear winter, hot dance food science PhD, and a sober accounting of the US's food-related losses.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-270-concentrated-profits/

Top Album Artists from last.fm for week ending 15 May

1 Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos 13
2 The Be Good Tanyas 12
3 M83 11
4 James Blackshaw 9
5 The Dave Brubeck Quartet 7

Top artists last week.

1. Billie Holiday 16
2. John Hiatt 11
3. Pat Metheny 11
4. Warren Zevon 11
5. Madredeus 10

Top Album Artists last week

1. Willie Nelson 14
2. Cowboy Junkies 12
3. Levon Helm 12
4. Oscar Peterson 11
5. John Coltrane 7

TIL about the -c flag in rsync, which skips files based on checksum. The big benefit to me is that it preserves modification times, making it easier to find what I’m looking for. They say it takes more processor time; I don’t care. Hope there are no gotchas.

Got to be a win all round.

Top Album Artists last week
1. Bill Frisell 14
2. Calexico 13
3. John Hiatt 10
4. Tres Chicas 10
5. Astor Piazzolla and Gary Burton 6

Top Album Artists last week:

1. Ralph Kirkpatrick 35
2. Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny 14
3. Galactic 13
4. Jenny Scheinman 12
5. The Iguanas 12

Eat This Newsletter 268

- Link to a truly thought-provoking essay on Malthus
- Fiction, fact, and myth in rural–urban conflict
- Crop variety names
- Celebrate Passover != Jewish

Read (and subscribe) at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-tn-268-will-the-circle/

Just for fun I went to look at the four sites Jason linked to, the ones he thinks may be of no value. Each asked me to share my information with 119 vendors. I'm not going to do that. And spending on adverts is not going to deliver visitors either.