Jeremy Cherfas

Latest episode: Palatable is not Potable

Whatever you think about bottled waters, the story of supplying clean, safe water that people actually want to drink is a fascinating one. Christy Spackman talked to me about her new book, The Taste of Water.

eatthispodcast.com/water

Roman roads visualised as a tube map. I cannot see any possible use for this in my own life, but I am thrilled beyond words that someone saw fit to make it.

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Back in 2008, I asked why organisations don’t get rid of people at random when they have to downsize. “Management would not be required to make difficult decisions that are almost certainly wrong in at least some cases”. Has any one tried, and if not, why not?

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Such a great talk and slides from Maggie Appleton. And from my own experience, barefoot developing for myself alone, I think she is absolutely right in her forecast and in the things the future she imagines will need.

• On foot* 43.149186, 11.449313* Tuesday 4 June, 2024* 423.81 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMap Not quite as close as I could be, but a better view. The quest is somewhere behind the bush on the left.

Latest episode: Women Butchers.

Cheap supermarket meat has made life hard for butchers. At the same time, a few younger people are taking an interest in butchery. I shouldn’t have been surprised that many of them are women, some of whom agreed to tell me their stories. eatthispodcast.com/butchery