Jeremy Cherfas

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.