Jeremy Cherfas

Yes: Love it when Pacific has sprung forward and we have stayed where we are.

Finished reading: Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes by Anthony Gottlieb, ISBN: 9780300180473

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@help I keep getting Bad Request error trying to post from Sunlit to my Micropub enabled info site. I know the app is authorized. I can’t seem to get any extra info. Nor can I delete the existing external blog to start again. Anything else I can try?

Really great set of photos and words.

Extra virgin olive oil appeared in 1960, after a decade of scandalous adulteration. Then, it denoted quality. Today, not so much. “I would argue,” says Carl Ipsen, “that a bigger problem today than fraud is transportation and storage.”Listen here 

Fascinating piece on how to really acquire a language, which left me feeling more than ever what a pain it is to have always found Italian newspapers so horrendously pompous and verbose. I’d love to be so engrossed in something that I wanted to devour it, but nothing, yet, comes close. Suggestions?

Top Albums from last.fm on 08/03/26 1, Chet Baker, Chet, (9); 2, John Scofield, Six Strings, (9); 3, The Little Willies, For The Good Times, (2); 4, Billie Holiday Lester Young, Lady Day Pres 1937–1941, (1); 5, Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde, (1);

Eat This Newsletter 297: Proudly Inefficient

This time around, efficiency is a very poor metric when it comes to cooking, supply chains, microwaves and breakfast.

Read it at buttondown.com/jeremyche…

Top Albums from last.fm on 01/03/26 1, Bill Frisell, Nashville, (14); 2, Bill Frisell, Good Dog, Happy Man, (12); 3, Schubert; Daniel Barenboim, Impromptus, (8); 4, Django Reinhardt Stéphane Grappelli with The Quintet of the Hot Club of France, Souvenirs, (2); 5, Various Artists, Cardinals At The Window, (2);

No way home.

Lying here somewhat stunned by Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know. Such a perfect novel, so finely constructed, and in the end so deeply satisfying. A glorious read.

One reason I love RSS is that the cost of keeping a feed in a reader is essentially zero. So when someone pops up after a gap of – checks notes – 5 years, 10 months, 8 days I know about it and can respond appropriately.

Happy Blog Birthday, Rebsie, and welcome back.

Some people will tell you the food system is broken. Not so, say Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg. Their new book is subtitled Why Industrial Food Is Good and How To Make It Even Better.We had a long and interesting chat, everything from cellular agriculture to labour in the food industry.https://eatthispodcast.com/ftp

Very impressive.

Top Albums from last.fm on 22/02/26 1, Spiro, Lightbox, (17); 2, Charlie Haden Pat Metheny, Beyond The Missouri Sky (Short Stories), (13); 3, Ludovico Einaudi, Divenire, (12); 4, Pat Metheny w/ Christian McBride Antonio Sánchez, Day Trip, (11); 5, Kabza De Small, Ziwangale, (10);

Apologies for Top Albums spam; gonna wait and hope for the automated version to roll around.

New issue of Eat This Newsletter.

• Botanists in the newsletter
• Diversity in the field
• Milk in the cupboard
• Georgia in the news
• Olives in the ground
• Rice in the bank

Read (and subscribe?) at buttondown.com/jeremyche…

”It’s a lunar calendar trifecta: the start of two fasting seasons, Ramadan and Lent, and the end of the painful year of the snake. I’m hoping, aren’t we all? that the year of the horse brings us better news.”

From a newsletter (on Substack) that I devour. naomiduguid.substack.com/p/farewel…

WooHoo! Updated to WithKnown 1.6.3 with nothing untoward. Kept my updated Checkin plugin templates as I know they work.

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