Jeremy Cherfas

Language Log has set out its stall and its intentions for 2018, which I applaud. There's talk of a redesign. I hope that in doing that, they consider adopting some Indieweb ideas.

Such fun to read this, and others like it. I really want to know how one eats a goose barnacle, and what it tastes like. Also a good reminder to try better to track these things for myself, maybe as part of my very new monthly roundup posts.

In so many respects, marijuana is a mirror of food, as noted at the mothership https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/marijuana-goes-mainstream

Lazymention sounds really interesting and potentially a welcome release from the Telegraph fandango. I do wonder, though, how it will play with my non-static but heavily cached Grav site.

A late contender for the best thing about #food I have read all year. Michael Lewis's feature Made in the U.S.D.A. goes inside Trump’s cruel campaign against the U.S.D.A.’s scientists https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/usda-food-stamps-school-lunch-trump-administration

According to one food writer, "dried chili peppers are grown in the Southwest and dehydrated onion and garlic are grown in California and Oregon" That's some impressive growing, right there.