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Jeremy Cherfas

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/

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-05-19

rabbit_quest #geohashing 20250516-W-AY68O8

1 min read

Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, a view across some long grass in flower with a central tree that may be a Holm Oak and some umbrella pines on the right. The sky is very blue.

* On foot
* 41.8814, 12.4388
* 16 May 2025
* 427.73 ppm CO2
OpenStreetMap

Another one a nice walk away in the other part of the local park. Had to walk through some lovely long grass to get there.

Jeremy Cherfas

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

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-05-16

rabbit_quest #geohashing 20250506-W-AY68O8

1 min read

Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, a view under some umbrella pines with patchy grass and a bare path in the foreground. In the middle distance is a small enclosure of bright orange mesh netting.

* On foot
* 41.884599, 12.448835
* 5 May 2025
* 427.68 ppm CO2
OpenStreetMap

It’s been a while, in more ways than one. Here’s a quest from 10 days ago.

Jeremy Cherfas

Top artists last week.

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

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-05-12

New episode: Puglia

1 min read

Typical vegetables of puglia in a ceramic bowl decorated with a green border. Barattiere are round, pale-green melons, eaten unripe like a cucumber. Carrots cay be purple, yellow or orange. And sporchia are the dark purple shoots of a broomrape parasitic on broad beans.

Direct from Polignano a Mare, Flavia Giordano's love letter to Puglia's unique foods and ingredients, including some remarkable biodiversity. Melons eaten unripe, colourful carrots, and sporchia, a broomrape parasitic on broad beans.

https://eatthispodcast.com/puglia

Jeremy Cherfas

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

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-05-05

Eat This Newsletter 269

1 min read

“Salt is a powerful thing. It ensures well-being, it cures, it pleases guests, and it attracts males. And it was brought from a mystical garden. To teach girls how to manage this power must have been an ongoing challenge for the elders.”

Read (and subscribe) at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-269-salted-butter/

Jeremy Cherfas

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.

Jeremy Cherfas

Got to be a win all round.