Jeremy Cherfas

Might just be me, but Apple’s launchctl seems badly broken, at least for new services. Followed www.navidrome.org/docs/inst… to the letter, and it just doesn’t work. The exactly same command directly from the terminal works perfectly. Cannot figure it out, but it seems I am not alone.

New episode: Quinoa’s Rise and Fall

Between 2007 and 2014 farmers on the altiplano of Peru saw their income from quinoa increase by almost 900%. The boom was followed even more quickly by a bust.

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Yes:

It is good to share some of the downs as well as the ups or even the plain level-going. I sometimes censor myself from sharing all the joy because I don’t want to give the impression that everything is always perfect, but it darn near is, for which I am grateful.

Most people know that Jewish dietary laws forbid pork. A new book asks why the pig — rather than any of the other animals banned by the Hebrew bible — should have become so inextricably bound up with Jewish identity.

eatthispodcast.com/pigs

Just wow! www.c82.net/natural-c…

The Natural System of Colours: Recreating Moses Harris’color wheels from the eighteenth century.

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Yes:

Eat This Newsletter, for your delectation.

• 16,000 calories per calorie: isn’t that rather inefficient?
• NuFood: ready for water lentils?
• Marmalade, membrillo: what’s the difference?

And more, at buttondown.com/jeremyche…

I think my problem with Douthat and this essay is that I just don’t find myself attracted to systems of belief, any systems of belief. To be a part of life, yes, but no more than a part, and a part with no special talents beyond self-destruction – which is easier maybe if life eternal beckons.

Is there anything worse than having a post from two years ago highlighted with fine exceprts, and discovering at least one typo?

Question expecting the answer no, as my old Domine used to yell.

Fixed now. Thanks Joe.

I fear this may not work, but I need some webmentions to style in my site redesign, so I am going to reply to a post not quite at random and hope that that shows up. It probably won’t, which will relegate styling webmentions to the live site. Heigh ho.

Latest episode: Food facts are not the answer to fear of foods

Charlotte Biltekoff, author of Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge, on how industrial food and real food talk past one another.

eatthispodcast.com/real-food

Unfortunately Google was a good one to resurface from this day in 2006, and of course the original inspiration is still up. I played again, and the results were not nearly as interesting or varied as they were all those years ago.

I got over the grave disappointment of Apple’s Books messing my Notes and Highlights for long enough to discover that a solution had been close at hand all along: Calibre!

www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/a-fa…

Grave disappointment. Cleanfeed has removed the ability to record left and right channels from its free tier, and there’s no way I can afford €28 a month for separate tracks. I guess I need to rewrite my podcast instructions for guests. Pity, it worked well.

Yes: Can’t stay to the end, and looking forward to it.

I bought a pair of “cycling" insoles for my non-cycling shoes (trainers) and on the first two rides, coming up the long hill to home seemed a lot less effort. Can that possibly be the result of the insoles? Or self-delusion? Not just a jump in fitness, I am sure.

Thanks to improved crop varieties, “From 1961 to 2015, global crop output was higher by 226 million metric tons”. Is that a lot?

Eat This Newsletter runs the numbers and is not impressed. Or might just be mistaken. You be the judge.

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