Jeremy Cherfas

What a shame. This site had been spam-free since August 7, and then some dork had to show up and ruin it.

Interesting comment. I hadn’t considered dairy allergy, which would have taken me even deeper into the thickets. I take it human milk was not an option.

Fascinating article, although it omitted one of the finest juggling acts I’ve ever seen. The Gandinis, at the Edinburgh Fringe long ago, lying on the floor and rolling water bottles from hand to hand. Slow juggling, very meditative and entrancing.

Tim Harford’s lukewarm review of William MacAskill’s book.If he is right, how could I justify giving £10 to a food bank today when I could set up a charitable trust, let the money accumulate centuries of compound interest before lavishing the proceeds on future generations? Are we morally obliged to live at subsistence levels to maximise the resources available for investment and research so our great-great-great-great-grandchildren will thrive? Such questions have been discussed and analysed at great depth in the literature on climate change. It is surprising to see them waved away with a few sentences here. Is it that surprising, really?

Very happy to discover that my episode on Garum, Rome’s museum of food and cooking, is peaking this week in Nigeria. What are they hearing that you haven’t? eatthispodcast.com/garum-museum/

 “We must stop giving breadcrumbs and start building bakeries.”Nice rhetoric. And then …?