Jeremy Cherfas

Latest Eat This Newsletter is at buttondown.email/jeremyche… with links to good stuff from @serbiaireland, @JaysonLusk, @colin_tudge, @NatureFoodJnl and, most horrifying, twitter.com/CeriseFle…

As I said in the newsletter: read it and weep.

I like the idea of a dappled woodland glade, the product of pig rootling, being neither light nor shade, and an apt metaphor for think beyond simplistic dualities.

Rewarding. pesos

Every time I read pieces about banking from people who have experienced banking systems outside the US, I marvel that they put up with it at all. I’m constantly amazed at just how easy things are with the online banks I use in Europe. No wonder I’m not tempted by crypto,

Little detour on the way back home. pesos

More ancient culture. pesos

Ave! pesos

Absorbing ancient culture. pesos

On the road. pesos

@herdyshepherd1 The pain for British farmers is real. However, outsourcing British food production to the rest of the world is nothing new. The deal is a return to the good old days of Empire, just like, er, Brexit.

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TIL (Possibly crappy) paracord melts at the same temperature as heatshrink tubing shrinks. Nevertheless, thanks to paracord, heatshrink and perseverance, my @rohantime Goas are no longer in danger of falling down thanks to crappy elastic.

Unbelievable skies tonight. pesos

Australian journo swaps one set of fibs for another.

“British forests were first subjected to clearing with the Roman conquest of AD 43.” Really?

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A pox on both their houses.

Couscous salad and asparagus, which alas are nearing the end of their season. pesos

This morning’s glory. Showed up out of nowhere last year and seems to breed true. At least the one plant that has flowered so far. pesos

What a terrific essay from George Orwell, which goes well beyond this choice jumping-off point:

“[T]he toad, unlike the skylark and the primrose, has never had much of a boost from poets.”

@gastrohistory shamed me into cleaning my salad spinner, and I’m happy about that. 

I don’t doubt that medical software is bad and that doctors have good cause to complain. But in a fight to the death, I suspect software for human resources or for teachers might be even worse.

Nothing says summer quite like tidying up the tomatoes for the first time. pesos

Excellent Conversations with Tyler episode talking to David Deutsch (apart from the whole multiverse thing about which I am not competent to judge, and nor do I care).