In honour of last week's 29th annual Golden Spurtle championship, I refer you to two previous epsiodes.
Porridge: Not your usual all-day breakfast https://www.eatthispodcast.com/porridge/ and
Why a spurtle makes a superior porridge stirrer https://www.eatthispodcast.com/spurtle/
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.
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/
First time I have needed to restore files from @arqbackup in a genuine emergency, and it was such a good experience. Smooth, straightforward, did the job. Phew!
It astonishes me that a fad diet can admonish its followers to "drink the Snake juice" without, apparently, a trace of irony. And that reminds me, whatever happened to oil pulling? Not that I really care.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/fad-diets/
Here's how to guarantee yourself a more interesting Monday. Sign up for Eat This Newsletter (free!) at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas and wait until tomorrow when the latest issue will appear, as if by magic, in your inbox.
Finished reading: The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
This is a first. Never before had a sign-up say "Email address is invalid. Can you try a different one?" for a masked email from @Fastmail. Step forward sonix.ai to claim your prize.
This is very bad news for me. On the one foot, NB 624s are the only sneaker-type shoes that come in a width that accommodates my misshapen feet. On the other, I'm reluctant to add to the CEO's profits. Recommend another brand, please.
Decision, decisions: is a touchbar on an M2 MacBook Pro worth €100? That’s the price difference from an M2 MBA, and the MBP has a slightly smaller screen and weighs 160 gm more. I’ve never seen anyone rave about a touchbar. So, what’s the deal? All thoughts welcome.
Finished reading: Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy by Gary Paul Nabhan
Finished reading: Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Currently reading: Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy by Gary Paul Nabhan, ISBN: 9780140239720
Finishing touches done for this week's Eat This Newsletter, with the Catherine Effect, from @BienassisLoic, not the pizza effect, from @NPR, groundnuts in The Gambia, and the horrible Hamlet Fire, from @BryantSimon. Sign up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas
I've never really been an outliner sort of person, although I know I should try harder. So I'm taking a look at [bike](https://bikeguide.hogbaysoftware.com/) and really liking it. Much more intuitive than things I've used before, so it may stick. Need to check that Save As script.
Currently reading: Night Soldiers by Alan Furst, ISBN: 9780375760006
New issue of Eat This Newsletter out now, with raw material provided by @kitchenbee @historicuk @minimaxir and a minor kerfuffle in the august pages of @PNASNews.
Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-185-heat/ and feel free to subscribe, for free.
Biggest mistake I ever made was starting a "free trial" of @RealVNC because now my original Home VNC Viewer no longer works and I cannot find a way to revert.
Not surprised that only 25% of people found this useful https://help.realvnc.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003474552#on-the-device-you-want-to-control-from-0-4
Latest issue of Eat This Newsletter is about to drop, racing through the backlog so normal service can be restored ASAP. There's hops, heritage grains and climate change, plus agricultural policy in South Africa and the US.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-184-catching-up-with-reality/
Consider subscribing.
Slightly puzzled by Epilogue for MB for those of us who do not have a paid account. Does it feed my timeline, eventually? If it does, I might consider PESOS rather than indiebookclub and POSSE. Also, two way traffic, to open someone’s link in MB would encourage conversation.
Finished reading: Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane, ISBN: 9780393358094
Currently reading: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, ISBN: 9780143037071
"You begin the book a sober reader, calmly appreciating the complexity of historical causation, and you finish it a raving wheat monomaniac."
Glad to know I am not alone. Fine review of @nelsonhist's book in the NYRB
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/07/21/wielding-wheat-oceans-of-grain-nelson/
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Abracadabra!
Here, have a webmention in recognition of this bold leap.
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Whoa! New artwork, parts of which look just like the leaves on my cannas. @cdevroe
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Quite hard.
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So many vowels
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No coalmines around here.
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Indeed it is!
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Another easy one
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Nice an' easy
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Not too hard
Very disappointed that Lets Liberate Diversity @eclld does not offer any kind of feed from its website. I would much rather follow a feed than any other way.
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Pure luck
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Twice is coincidence ...
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Another bad guess.
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Bah! Rubbish performance today.
Now for the third time, after checking out the dev branch, upgrading to PHP 8.1 and running composer.phar update, let us see whether we can post a new status update here.
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OK, this is weird, but I find it hard to believe that yesterday's word and today's came up purely randomly.
I try to make my site look good on mobile, but that isn’t my primary concern. Not too difficult with so many good responsive basic packages available.
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Nearly missed this one.
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Tricky one, and also, entirely remote.
It truly is like magic being able to use my desktop computer from far away, and will be even better when I can work out how to summon Alfred. I use option-space on the Mac and cannot for the life of me work out how to send that from my iPad. Do you know?