Jeremy Cherfas

Time again for Eat This Newsletter.

• Some things called pepper
• Welsh oats
• Chickens with olives
• Hot potatoes
• Civil Eats’Food Policy Tracker

Read (and subscribe) at buttondown.com/jeremyche…

Thanks for the introduction to wikiloc.

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.

eatthispodcast.com/quinoa

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.

h/t anhvn.com/posts/202…

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