Jeremy Cherfas

Latest Eat This Newsletter, and the last one of the year. From pedants on pintxos to bread and circuses, all your food-adjacent reading needs.

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Not to be overshadowed by Rita Hayworth and Gilda, the latest Eat This Podcast also looks into The Swedish Conundrum.What are Swedes getting when they open a tin of “ansjovis”? Not anchovies. Or at least, not Engraulis encrasicolus.https://www.eatthispodcast.com/gilda/

• On bus* 41.889492, 12.491804* 26 December 2024* 425.45 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapMy first drive-by rabbit. And I only noticed it once I was on the bus and looking distractedly at my phone. Probably doesn’t count in the greater scheme of things, but what the heck.

Latest episode considers possibly the original pintxo. A plump Cantabrian anchovy, a spicy pickled guindilla pepper, and a juicy green olive, skewered on a toothpick. It’s invention is contested, but not its name, nor the inspiration for that name: Gilda.

www.eatthispodcast.com/gilda/

Interesting take on the roots of Dan Dennett’s ideas, which did indeed clarify some of them for me.

Under Robin Sloan’s reading, I fail to see any distinction between cults and tribes.

• On foot* 41.876189, 12.460472* 19 December 2024* 425.37 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMap I wanted to bag this rabbit because the house in the photo was derelict for years and falling apart because, we were told, the siblings who inherited it couldn’t agree what to do with it. No idea how that was resolved, but it looks great now.

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Back when I started podcasting, in 2013, it seemed sensible to include a page telling people that they could subscribe, and how. Is that still needed today? Does “wherever you get your podcasts” really cover it, or should I add links for all the apps and services?

Currently reading: The Amateur: The pleasures of doing what you love by Andy Merrifield, ISBN: 9781786631060

                     #Non-fiction

Maybe: It all depends on dinner.

I can easily see why people would choose Substack in preference to what I do here — and indeed, if I had to make my living solely from writing I would almost certainly be using Substack myself. (Also, I would almost certainly be living below the poverty line.) But every Substack user needs to realize that (a) Substack writers are not truly independent, (b) Substack will almost certainly undergo enshittification, and, therefore, (c) anyone using the platform needs an unenshittifiable backup. All you really need to know

This is madness. I have 653 different tags on my ~4000 bookmarks in linkding. Fully 267 of them have a single entry. Clearly I urgently need to procrastinate by cleaning everything up.

Nuggets galore.

 * On foot* 41.882431, 12.455121* 26 November 2024* 424.57 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapJust across the road from my barber, whom I had planned to visit in any case.