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Eat This Newsletter 299: No Doom
Supply lines are imperilled, but the linking must continue.
1) Cool as a cucumber, with added nomenclature
2) Meat and mushrooms, apostasy in Texas and Iowa.
3) Anchovies, the best on the internet?
4) Olive Oil Tourism, the deets
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-299-no-doom/ this time, and consider subscribing.
Suffering from a mild case of imposter syndrome. I expect I will get over it.
I mean, if I can mirror my iPhone to my iMac, I surely ought to be able to mirror my iMac to my phone.
My big problem with #Navidrome is that when I’m listening on the sofa and have all songs on shuffle, I have to bestir myself and walk across the room to skip a song I don’t wish to hear.
I can live with that, but there must be a way.
The grapevine on the terrace is definitely getting going now. As always, the question is: will it flower and set fruit?
New episode.
EU regulations for extra-virgin olive oil include tasting notes. An oil that has any of the forbidden flavours cannot be classified as extra virgin.
But modern, old-fashioned oils in Provence go out of their way to develop some — but not all — of the EU’s “defects”. These throwback oils rely on up-to-date equipment and the skill of the miller.
In this episode, the paradox of old-fashioned modern oil.
Today, in Annals of Machine Transcription:
1) IT Desk Podcast
2) Heed This Podcast
No idea where 1 came from, but I quite like 2.
If you want to be sure to hear the podcast, with hand-corrected transcript, head over to https://eatthispodcast.com/subscribe-2/
I ought to update that page, I suppose, but, you know …
My BirdNET-Pi detected a tawny owl a few times over the past week, usually around 3 am. We live near a big park so I was inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt. And I was right, because this morning, in the park, I found incontrovertible evidence.
I’m resurrecting my post from this day in 2021 because the question it asks still requires some sort of answer.
“damninteresting its core, is about how Lysenko’s fake science, intended to demonstrate the superiority of Marxist theory, was responsible for the death by starvation not only of Nikolai Vavilov but also of uncountable millions of Russians.
“Does a photo faked to show Vavilov in the card index of a library not undermine that intent?”
https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/nikolai-vavilov-as-he-never-was
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Rabbit Quest 20260315-W-AY68OD
* On foot
* 41.8873, 12.4734
* 15 March 2026
* 428.94 ppm CO2
*OpenStreetMap[1]
A fitting rabbit for the Ides of March, the Pope’s Tobacco Factory[2]. I did walk past much closer to the actual Rabbit, but could not pass up the opportunity to snap what might such a significant building.
[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.88733&mlon=12.47436#map=14/41.88773/12.474360&layers=H
[2] https://insidethevatican.com/magazine/holy-smoking-in-piazza-mastai/
A neighbourhood Bruggmansia in full flower.
Today's exciting news from the terrace, not worth photographic evidence yet for obvious reasons: Convallaria peeping above soil, dahlia ditto, one leaf bud on the Wisteria has broken.
Ping! The WhatsApps that should have been an email | Tim Harford: https://stream.jeremycherfas.net/2026/ping-the-whatsapps-that-should-have-been-an-email-tim
The unstoppable rise of extra virgin olive oil
The standards for extra virgin olive oil were adopted in 1960, after a decade marred by wholesale adulteration. Today, EVOO is everywhere, transformed from a mark of quality to a mark of little meaning. The terrible frauds have mostly vanished, but all is not rosy.
“I would argue,” says Carl Ipsen, “that a bigger problem today than fraud is transportation and storage.”
Listen at https://eatthispodcast.com/evoo
Eat This Newsletter 297: Proudly Inefficient
This time around, efficiency is a very poor metric.
Cooking is inefficient, but enables you to Eat Real Food. Just in time food delivery is inefficient when things are stable, but things are not stable. Microwaves are efficient, even for gourmet meals. Contemplating breakfast in too much detail is inefficient, but fun.
Read it at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-297-proudly-inefficient/
There is a special place in hell reserved for websites that don’t let you paste your credit card number into a form.
That is all.
”You are more likely to find the raw ingredients for a better future for the food system at the Waffle House than you are at your local farmers’ market.”
Gabriel Rosenberg and Jan Dutkiewicz talking about their new book Feed The People!
Wait, so Haller and Bosch have a time share? Or Haller bought from Bosch? In which case, where is Bosch these days? And are Hayley and Maddie interchangeable too?
Today’s bake was an absolute corker. Could perhaps have used another bit of proofing, but lovely despite that. 50% whole-wheat with added fennel seeds, natural leaven. Can’t wait to dig in.
New episode.
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.
Absolute spawn of Satan, this plastic netting. Two-and-a-half hours wrangling the bloody stuff, but at least the sweet peas now have a jungle gym.
A great bittern (Botaurus stellaris) at 03:41 with a confidence level of 82%? Sure, why not. But …
Currently patiently channelling @CommonMugwort Aunt Mairi.
Can someone please remind me of the site that allows you to check punctuality on specifc German trains? I’m wondering whether a 12 minute transfer in Mannheim is even worth thinking about. Thank you.
You probably can run BirdNET-Pi on a Pi Zero, but it will work a lot better on a Pi Model 4B.
People love the idea of the agriturismo in Italy. As explained in this blog post, “the synergy between agrobiodiversity and sustainable agritourisms, touch the grass.
There’s more to it than that, though, according to the FAO.
As explained in this blog post, “the synergy between agrobiodiversity and sustainable agritourism creates a powerful feedback loop that safeguards both biological heritage and rural livelihoods”.
New issue of Eat This Newsletter, trawling the further reaches of the internet for tasty morsels.
In the cod end this time:
- 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 https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-296-long-lasting/
Pi-hole, finally.
That is all.
