Jeremy Cherfas

“You begin the book a sober reader, calmly appreciating the complexity of historical causation, and you finish it a raving wheat monomaniac.”

Glad to know I am not alone. Fine review of @nelsonhist’s book in the NYRB

www.nybooks.com/articles/…

Interesting account of a single piece of civil disobedience and its aftermath.

Thank YOU @nelsonhist for doing the work and being happy to talk about it. Today, Grain and Empire closes the trilogy, leaving a lot still unsaid. Oceans of Grain is a terrific read that sheds light on so many disparate topics, all connected by wheat.

Splendid piece by a splendid broadcaster. Only one thing to push back against:Music helps. Sound beds help. Clear simple writing helps.Clear writing, obviously. But music and sound beds? This is much more culturally determined, in my view, and I don’t know how best to cope with it.

I see Jason using what looks like the AT 875 short shotgun mic as his desktop mic, possibly for podcasting and conferencing, and wonder how that compares to a less directional mic like my Electrovoice R50.

@TimDee4 More to it than spring and autumn. Thought to be a coded guide to the long-term storage of grain, known to the Ancients and then forgotten until rediscovered in the late 18th century – without which there would be no global wheat trade. www.eatthispodcast.com/grain-per…

@jblanca42 And finance. This week, @nelshist explains that wheat warehouses were the first banks, how the grain futures market emerged from the US Civil War and how Russia robbed the widows and orphans of France.

https//eatthisp…

Next week, empire!

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Abracadabra!

Here, have a webmention in recognition of this bold leap.

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Whoa! New artwork, parts of which look just like the leaves on my cannas. @cdevroe

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Quite hard.

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So many vowels

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No coalmines around here.

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Indeed it is!

A bookmark with a fixed number of sticky tags on it is a brilliant idea. No more tags? Stop reading and write notes on the things you tagged.

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Another easy one