A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Agreed, kefir is a total doddle (though I don't do any of the variations that other people do). I do feel bad when I don't have anyone to give surplus grains to. Although yoghurt is more of a faff, it isn't that difficult, especially with a good thermometer and a vacuum flask.
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Understood. I've a mind to try folding them into a loaf of bread as an experiment.
@jeremycherfas Translation, please (doddle, faff)! BTW we enjoyed the yogurt-cast.
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
Understood. I've a mind to try folding them into a loaf of bread as an experiment.
, Jan 24 2022 on twitter.com
A doddle is something very easy, as opposed to a faff which is not actually difficult, but might be complex, with many steps. Kefir is pour milk onto grains in container, wait. Yoghurt is heat milk, wait for it to cool a bit, add yoghurt, keep warm, wait.
@JMaxB A doddle is something very easy, as opposed to a faff which is not actually difficult, but might be complex, with many steps. Kefir is pour milk onto grains in container, wait. Yoghurt is heat milk, wait for it to cool a bit, add yoghurt, keep warm, wait.
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
Wow, that could be a whole lot of fermentation. Interesting idea. Fold them into unleavened dough?
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@jeremycherfas Thanks! The podcast reminded me that, in my own lifetime, it was possible to find people who didn't know what yogurt is. In the late 1960s I used to pack a small carton in the lunch I took to my summer job. A workmate/friend asked me what it was. I explained that it was milk cultured with bacteria. He said "You mean GERMS!"
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
Yup. I’ve heard people say they have leavened a dough with nothing but kefir, but I think I’ll just try putting some in my standard sourdough.
, Jan 24 2022 on twitter.com
@JMaxB to me growing up, pizza was a unknown thing, pasta felt like new thing and Chinese food was some I read about in books, I had no chance of trying sushi until I was 30 something (I think) ... I now feel like a real country boy 😋
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
@jemostrom They used to tell us that Scandinavians live on cod and potatoes. It seems that times have changed.
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
@JMaxB I remember that my grandma to the main village with the order: Go and by some pork. She was eating moose meat and potatoes twice a day, almost every day and she was fed up with it 😋
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
@JMaxB great story. My mum was a health food nut way back, so we had brown bread bricks and made our own yoghurt in the sixties. Some things just stay with you.
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
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If mussels are “the oyster of the poor,” what were they when oysters were the oysters of the poor?
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I'm quoting Grimod de La Reynière, attributed, in Kettner's Book of the Table (1877), page 308. Hence the quotations. Full entry is even more fascinating. But good point.
, Jan 21 2022 on twitter.com
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Perhaps I'm old fashioned (no perhaps about it) but I am having a hard time seeing the value (to me) of Research Rabbit. As Ton says, it would just feed my inner collector.
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@jeremycherfas I'm curious about it. If you aren't writing up your own research or needing to keep up with a particular body of research, I don't think it would be helpful. I'm probably going to try it, though.
, Jan 19 2022 on micro.blog
@kimberlyhirsh I will be interested to see what you make of it.
, Jan 19 2022 on micro.blog
It may be Monday, it may even be Veganuary, but Eat This Newsletter happens not to be meatless today.
In this issue, nourishment from @JLewisStempel, @JSTOR_Daily, @ModFarm and @OurWorldInData.
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Ah, serendipity. To read, almost one after the other, David Sparks and Ben Werdmüller saying very similar things about the purpose of work. David had a great Walt Disney quote: “We don’t make movies to make money. We make money to make more movies.”
A little late with the first Eat This Newsletter of the New Year, but my boss says that's OK.
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Happy Birthday Ben. Such an interesting list. On a quick read, some of those things are already here (though perhaps not polished enough), some of them will never be here, and some of them ought to be here already. Thought-provoking.
Maybe you really want to build your own, but if not, Newsblur is an RSS reader has an excellent ability to include email newsletters.
When a human-powered transcript flows seamlessly from "tide disputes" to "Thai disputes" without once taking on board that "tides are these ecclesiastical taxes ...".
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@jeremycherfas Oops! Big difference.
, Jan 06 2022 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas also tithes?
, Jan 06 2022 on micro.blog
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I realise it is absurd to take to Twitter to wonder where are the blog carnivals of today, but ...
... where are the blog carnivals of today?
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Life is a carnival
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I thought life was a blog. It certainly used to be.
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Yes I’ve offered super healthy surplus kefir grains numerous times on Twitter and no one takes them. I don’t think I could live without kefir, so naturally find it implausible that others can!
William Thomas, Jan 24 2022 on twitter.com