Jeremy Cherfas

Not going to let the lack of a green chilli stop me making Madhur Jaffrey’s khatte chole, sour chickpeas. pesos

It’s fun to see someone have their world view shot to hell. There are two things going on here. One is that time is a good substitute for energy when it comes to developing gluten. The other is that time develops flavour, even from a teeny amount of leaven.

Cereal friends, would you like to create your own evolutionary populations? /ppAll it takes is time, ingenuity and land. French researchers Emma Flipon and Véronique Chable have made a handy-dandy poster showing how it is done (with links to lots more detail) The poster is at ow.ly/lXhu50F0R… /ppThe work was part of the EU Liveseed project. I’m not part of that, but I think more people should be aware of it. pesos

Excellent read, with lots of far-flung examples.

Burgers! pesos

Pretty good spot for lunch. pesos

Never having had to deal with prescriptions and refilling them in the same way, I thought I had it bad, needing to send a fax to cancel my account with my internet service provider! This reminds me of a movie where the entire plot hinges on a fax that fell behind the machine and so was never seen. Not that I can remember the movie.

There surely has to be a better way.

Currently reading: The Screaming Sky by Charles Foster

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