Jeremy Cherfas

Very cool. A new website dedicated to taking your bicycle on a train (in Europe). Sort of The Person with a Saddle in Seat 61. There’s mention of it being crowd-sourced, which would be interesting. Instant follow.

cycling-on-rails.com/blog/2024…

Eat This Newsletter today ranges from big stories in India and Europe to little gems about candy floss (aka cotton candy) and asparagus.

Oh, and a titan of industrial food calls for mandatory nutrition labels.

Read it at buttondown.com/jeremyche… and while you are there, consider subscribing.

Almost identical to my own journey, although I haven’t scoured ALL the places I might have left a bookmark. I should watch the tagging video, because I know I am too lax about tags, and have too many tags with only a single item. AI could fix that, right?

I’ve often dreamed of handing headphones to people playing their shitty phone-based noises out loud, but never taken it beyond a dream. Terence Eden could be living the dream with his two quid shitty earphones.

Current me thanks past me for due diligence.

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New episode: How the Spanish learned to love anchovies

For hundreds of years, the people of Spain wanted nothing to do with anchovies, except perhaps as fertiliser for their fields. Today, they eat more anchovies than anyone else. How did that happen?

eatthispodcast.com/anchovies…

After a week away seeing family and mostly ignoring the online, it is very good to be back home and online.

I don’t know why they call it a potato. Tuber would be just as alliterative, and instructive to boot. Still, an interesting read.

Last week was National School Lunch Week in the US. The latest Eat This Newsletter wonders why there is still no such thing as a universal free school lunch.

Read it at buttondown.com/jeremyche… and think about subscribing there.

Truly baffled by someone who has a kind of About page that links to their various online presences, and the one labelled “blog” takes me to a Substack signup. Whatever else you may think it is, a newsletter is not, on its own, a weblog. At least, not for me.

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For some reason, we both woke at our normal time and then slept on for another 90 minutes. TGIS

Fun and instructive.

There is a tide … which … delivers anchovies. I was so happy to learn that Peter Rukavina had both taken the plunge on anchovies and shared a blog post about them for me to explore. I’m also stealing his description: a “salty fishy kapow-offering friend,” although, hold the fishy.

Latest episode: the divisive anchovy.Love them? Get practical advice that can make them even better.Hate them? the failing probably is not yours.Listen at www.eatthispodcast.com/anchovies… and subscribe wherever et cetera.

I knew most of this history, as a relatively long-time user of Known, and I contribute to the project via Open Collective. A new version of Known would be even better than a functional exporter, but I would settle for that if I have to.

In the latest Eat This Newsletter

• Nutrition experts who feed off big food
• The tomato in India
• Tainted turmeric
• Cloves, with a hitch
• 陈麻婆豆腐: is the story true?

Read it at buttondown.com/jeremyche… and please consider subscribing.

Yet another plea for proper micropayments that don’t gouge payer or payee. Even Patreon has been going down the tubes in this regard. I still fondly remember the original flattr. Couldn’t someone, somewhere, please reinvent that.