Jeremy Cherfas

Eat This Podcast: The Miracle of Salt

Talking to Naomi Duguid about her book The Miracle of Salt and we managed to avoid the whole pink salt diet trick nonsense. So should you. Listen at eatthispodcast.com/salt

John Naughton is in very good form in his latest Observer column.

Peter hasn’t been in Berlin since 2018. There’s some likelihood of an IWC in there on 1-2 November, and it would be great to see him there.

Top Artists for the week to 18 September, from last.fm.

1 Ludovico Einaudi 26 scrobbles 2 Zoë Keating 15 3 Bill Frisell 14 4 Group Listening 8 5 Faramarz Payvar Ensemble 6

Annals of Automated Translation, 2025-09-19.

“There’s a new mommy sort of flavour, because after all, remember, vanilla is fermented.”

Top artists for the week to 11 September, from last.fm

1 Calexico 15 scrobbles 2 Bill Frisell 14 3 Tommy Hayes 14 4 Charlie Haden Pat Metheny 13 5 Leon Redbone 13

Just for a laugh I decided to remove all the data that 1478 websites had stored about me. I mean, how much harm could it do?

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Eat This Newsletter 283: Odious

I am reliably informed I showed no aversion to stinky cheeses as an infant. That may explain why I don’t find of this issue’s items revolting, repellent, repulsive, nauseating, unpalatable, unappetising, uninviting or unsavoury.

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A good reminder from Maya.land that Mailchimp newsletters have a secret RSS feed, which reminded me to add two more Substack newsletters to my feed reader, a much simpler process by far.

It was nice to be reminded that 20 years ago today I received my portion of what was claimed then to be a 100-year-old sourdough starter from Tuscany. It’s still going strong, as is my own starter, at least 40 years old.

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@help @manton I have twice tried to update micro.blog on my Mac, and twice it has stalled on extracting the update. So I quit and everything is fine.

Reluctantly, I use What’s App to communicate with a few friends and family who really do not want to change their ways. My name and number are thus available to anyone who wants to message me, and usually I am able to find another way to reply and suggest that they use Signal or plain ol’email. That scenario poayed out perfectly earlier this week. Today, Instagram recommended I follow the person involved. And that is why I am reluctant.

• On foot* 41.8565, 12.4847* 7 September 2025* 422.31 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapHad to get out after a couple of days chained to my desk so went for a 5km walk to bag this rabbit. Very much enjoyed a cold drink at the bar just down the road.

And then there’s this, claiming I spent more time on archive.org than Safari. By a lot. And I know I didn’t. Maybe the computer was up to something …

Eat This Podcast kicks off a new series talking to John Speth about that Neanderthal fat factory and a better explanation for why, when you look at nitrogen isotope ratios, Neanderthals seem to be even more carnivorous than lions and tigers.

www.eatthispodcast.com/maggots/

Mystified. How can an AppleScript that works perfectly from Script Editor be broken when called by Keyboard Maestro? Putting off hunting for an actual answer to next week.

I should have known, back when I wrote Cry baby? Die baby (https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/cry-baby-die-baby) in 2006 that there was no good evidence for a genetic basis to colic in human infants.

The thing is, those podcast spammers selling the joys of YT are quite enticing, until I remember that although it would be nice to have more listeners, it isn’t necessary.

Nice to be back at home after extended absences, but so much catching up to do. That’s why I haven’t promoted the latest Eat This Newsletter until now, but here it is for your entertainment.

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