Jeremy Cherfas

If you’re puzzled by recent claims about “authentic” Parmigiano-Reggiano you might want to listen to Zachary Nowak explain how the rules effectively trapped the cheese in aspic.

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• On foot* Location: 50.459076, -3.510636* Monday 25 August 2025* 422.21 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMap Rich residences behind high walls.

Eat This Newsletter 281, where food is so much more than just something to eat.

• How do we change the way we eat?
• Fungi to biofortify wheat
• In Kashmir, bread and lotus flowers
• Senegal’s madd for local development
• Metal mouth and blanched basil

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Brad DeLong boosted this, and I am very glad he did, because it deserves a very wide hearing. (And understanding? Or would that be too much to ask?)

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Be the first to find out about this one quick trick “to help stop or reduce irreversible planetary overheating”.

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Eat This Newsletter 280: colonial cultural history of two very different items, a gift to UPF regulation, English farmers' shattered dreams, and too much disturbing food safety news.

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• On foot* Location: 50.472839, -3.523942* Sunday 17 August 2025* 422.35 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMap  Many contour lines crossed.

What do absinthe and upland rice have in common?

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So. Much. This. (Well, the whole piece, obviously.)[W]e live in a world of increasingly militarised walls and borders. It’s easy for those of us who live on the lucky side of those borders, with our fig and plum trees and our rights to life and liberty, to imagine that we’ll always be the lucky ones. I don’t make that assumption. As the meta-crisis unfolds, there’s no telling where the life zones and where the death zones will be, long-term.

What has the Assumption of the Virgin Mary to do with the middle of August? Is she just another in a long line of Mother Goddesses? Why is Virgo carrying a wheatsheaf?

Some answers in www.eatthispodcast.com/our-daily… from my month of daily podcasts on wheat in 2018

I’ve not quite given up on trying to persuade people I respect off Substack, so I keep on stacking ammo.They’re building audiences on borrowed land, subject to algorithmic whims and platform policies they cannot directly influence, while helping to subsidize the infrastructure that promotes their ideological opponents. See?

Podcasters: About to record my first episode using Zoom. I normally record from FaceTime and Skype (RIP) mix-minus to my DAW. It is worth doing the same as a backup for Zoom’s local recording?

I guess I’m asking how reliable is Zoom’s local recording.

Eat This Newsletter 279: No Excuses

An attack on industrial agriculture.

Science-based fisheries management works.

Beware the poppy seed, and dodgy drug tests.

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What a rare treat. Someone recommends an episode of a podcast I don’t subscribe to. I go to the page in question. I like the look of it. I attempt to Huffudff the episode. It Just Works. I carry on about my business. The end.

I’m not sure I ever forgot how to surf the web, but in case you have, David Cain spells it out at his blog Raptitude: www.raptitude.com/2025/06/h…

And in keeping with his advice, I got there from Tim Bray’s latest collection of Long Links: www.tbray.org/ongoing/W…

I would also repeat: use RSS

Eat This Newsletter 277: Latest scientific research predicts it is only a matter of time before some valiant entrepreneur offers freeze-dried maggot supplements to gullible eat-like-a- Neanderthal knuckleheads.

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I vaguely knew, in a theoretical way, about S-spun and Z-spun yarns, but not about their impact on crochet and knitting. Finally, buried deep within the useless and the slop, a site that was very helpful.

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Trump is the head of a cult that has figured out how to turn fear, precarity and pain into the top of a sales funnel that destroys anyone who gets caught in it.A fine diagnosis, through and through. The challenge now is, how to mass deprogram the members of the cult.