Jeremy Cherfas

In the latest Eat This Newsletter

• Nutrition experts who feed off big food
• The tomato in India
• Tainted turmeric
• Cloves, with a hitch
• 陈麻婆豆腐: is the story true?

Read it at buttondown.com/jeremyche… and please consider subscribing.

Yet another plea for proper micropayments that don’t gouge payer or payee. Even Patreon has been going down the tubes in this regard. I still fondly remember the original flattr. Couldn’t someone, somewhere, please reinvent that.

 #rabbit_quest #geohashing 20241004-W-AY6808* On foot* 41.886121, 12.444012* 4 October 2024* 420.9 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapAfter recent storms there were a few trees blocking my way, and I couldn’t get that close anyway.

Eat This Podcast latest episode: Crunch Time — Insects Are Not Going to Save Us

Dustin Crummett, executive director of The Insect Institute, tells me why he thinks the puffery about eating insects to save the planet is largely hot air inflating a bubble.

eatthispodcast.com/no-insect…

I find it odd that anyone who found the Gutenberg editor in WordPress “deeply frustrating “ would not switch to ClassicPress. Maybe they looked and decided it wasn’t for them; if so, I would love to know why.

I’ve long known that the sky is polarised, but today I discovered while waking along the beach that rainbows are too. I happened to tilt my head to one side and a rainbow that had been faint and short became much brighter and extended across more of the sky. Strange.

I wish there were some kind of tool that would do a diff between two audio files so I could string together all the ums and ers and I means I’ve cut out and send them to the person that others praise for being so eloquent and fluent.

• On foot* 55.169166, -6.777712* Tuesday 24 September 2024* 420.25 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMap I’ve been looking for baggable rabbits, but this graticulette is mostly sea, and even this one was out of reach except at low tide, which wasn’t for about another 6 hours.

Ayjay and lots of other good people wish Word would die in a fire. Me too.