Jeremy Cherfas

“I never relinquished my desire to hop a train, I just stopped pursuing it.”

Very disappointed, in the end, by this article, which I had hoped might tell me about the reality of riding the rails today.

Instead, a bit like me, the writer just gave up on the dream.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05/09/the-hobo-handbook/

Album artists to 12 June at last.fm https://www.last.fm/user/jeremycherfas

1 Paul Lewis 18
2 Spiro 17
3 Gigi 14
4 Junior Wells 14
5 Coleman Hawkins & Lester Young 13

Just put the finishing touches to tomorrow's Eat This Newsletter. There’s a common theme to the stories; how forces way beyond a person’s control influence what and how they eat.

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Little did I know when I booked a cycling holiday in the Po Valley that I would be staying at the heart of Italy’s first supply chain for certified organic quinoa grown in Italy.

Serendipity at its finest.

https://eatthispodcast.com/quinitalia

Many countries have strict rules about who is allowed to give advice on diet and nutrition. That doesn't stop even qualified people from selling all kinds of snake oil.

Tara Schmidt, lead dietitian for the Mayo Clinic Diet, told me about her work.

Listen at https://eatthispodcast.com/dietitian

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