Jeremy Cherfas

So correct. I fear we may lose the meaning of podcast, just as we lost the meaning of blog post. 

@miiiike_sm Another great breeding story to add to my collection; thanks. Not unlike the Red Fife story.

Great headlines of our times.

I’m still getting spam through public comments. I divert the notifications to a special mailbox and keep on top of them, deleting anything I find, and, touch wood, it may be declining.

                     #WithKnown

Interesting piece from Tom Philpott at Mother Jones, pointing out that ALL the big brewers use additional sources of food for their yeasts. Some use corn, some use rice. A pox on all of them.

Smacks forehead

I’m instantly adding the -day-of-week code outlined here into my one-line-per-day journal of sorts.

Forewarned is forearmed; thanks.

@jamesksowerby Indeed, Elizabeth David did not think much of the Chorleywood Bread Process from the start. And I think she was the first person I read who suggesting using much less yeast and much more time to get good flavour.