A week ago, I had the lens in one eye replaced. The result?

“It’s a lot like the old days of trying to get a good colour print at home,” was the best I could come up with. “You print one of those test images that came with the printer, with all those different skin colours, and you discover that the pretty pink baby actually has a slight green tinge.”

https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/i-can-see-clearly-now

Latest Episode: The Spice Bag

In 2008, the legend goes, staff at a Chinese takeaway in Dublin cooked themselves up a special treat after hours. Nothing too fancy, but tasty enough that soon their friends wanted the same. One thing led to another and today you can find something similar not only across Ireland but as far afield as New Zealand.

I got the history from John Mulcahy at TU Dublin

Listen at https://eatthispodcast.com/spice-bag

#Ireland #food #spice_bag

Extremely nerve wracking. Do I have enough yarn left to do four more rows? Not that it matters a huge amount.

#crochet @crochet

Went for a wander through a visually very interesting part of town a couple of days ago.

https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/the-quartiere-coppede%CC%81

#Rome

Opening Apple Mail for mail to: links has always been a bit of a pain. Maybe this is a better solution for me than the desktop app, which I’m sure I would leave open and check too often. https://social.tchncs.de/@case2tv/115376106285087309

Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy

The new EAT-Lancet report “allows two servings of animal-source foods per day—drawn from fish, yogurt, milk, cheese, or meat”. What if the yoghurt contains ants? One serving, or two?

That, plus the certainties of birth, death, and school lunch money.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-285-antsy/

#newsletter #food #agriculture

I started a project with a very splitty yarn that drove me nuts. After looking around online I adopted a “reverse” move for pulling the loop through the stitch, with the yarn in front of the hook, and it has made a huge difference. I am no longer going nuts. It may not be correct, but it works.

@crochet #crochet

Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy

Life's little certainties: birth, death, and school lunch money.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-285-antsy/

#newsletter #food #agriculture

The Myth of the Sommelier.

A newsletter at That Place, but a wonderful read nevertheless.

“There are hundreds of different large-scale wine scandals that suggest the institutions responsible for reviewing, rating, and certifying wine don’t deserve the reputations they pride themselves on.”

https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-myth-of-the-sommelier

#wine

Newsletter done, time for a nice walk in the glorious late summer sunshine.