”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!
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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.
I’m really enjoying having a BirdNET-Pi although I am worried that although it is possible to run it on a Pi Zero, it really doesn't perform very well. At least, not in my hands.
Sweet peas are up after only a week!
Food Notes from an American Prison
”I like to say that I was a garlic smuggler for the mafia, which I was, but there’s more to the story than that.”
@ehasbrouck reflects on his time in a federal penitentiary, where the kinds of cooking Italian maximum security inmates get up to would have been completely unthinkable.
Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20260209-W-AY68OD
* On foot
* 41.8867, 12.4664
* 9 February 2026
* 428.77 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.88865&mlon=12.466397#map=14/41.88865/12.46640&layers=H)
How very pleasant. Today’s quest was just to the side of what some people cite as the jewel of the Renaissance architecture, [Bramante’s Tempietto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempietto_del_Bramante). I couldn’t get any closer today, though I have been inside on other occasions.
“Let the scientists and their interpreters fight it out over single nutrients. Eat food and enjoy your dinner.”
Noted on this day in 2010, still noteworthy today.
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/02/confused-about-nutrition-eat-food/
“Boar’s Head reopens Virginia deli meat plant tied to deadly listeria outbreak”
I’m sure it will be absolutely fine.
https://apnews.com/article/boars-head-listeria-recall-plant-reopens-a840cee98af425971d5da3c658d5013d
Just putting the finishing touches to tomorrow's podcast episode, and this seemed inappropriate.
@amble Congratulations on the new look for Rabbit Quest. One problem. When location is on, the zoom seems to be fixed. If I zoom out, it zooms back in automatically. Otherwise, I love the new look. Much clearer.
#Rabbit_quest
Transportation modes would be great. https://mastodon.social/@dawarich/115992309474158318
Fell at the first. I have a Pi Zero, not a Pi Zero W2. I wonder whether my local seller is actually a shop that I can walk into, rather than only an online distributor. It would be nice if they were, but I cannot even try until Monday.
OK, let's do this.
Setting up a mobile BirdNET-Pi to eavesdrop on our feathered friends.
Surveillance as it should be.
I wrote about a way round the EU directive on single-use plastics
Would you actually put them in the dishwasher and re-use them?
A medieval pushmi-pullyu
https://mastodon.social/@medieval_illuminations/115976858388253903
Spero Che anche Roma si fa
https://poliversity.it/@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/115971331639329426
New Eat This Newsletter 294: All wet
* A water sommelier walks into a spa ...
* Never mind food prices, how did water get so costly?
* Arizona attempts to keep Saudi Arabia out of its aquifers.
All the news that's fit to drink at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-294-all-wet/
Please consider subscribing.
Help wanted.
I migrated a site to a new host (Hetzner) yesterday. Spammers can apparently reach the site, but I still can’t.
Is there anything I can try?
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/alas-i-am-not-a-server-admin
There's a new paper in PNAS [1] (paywalled) showing that zoo populations of mammals in North America and Europe are getting older because zoos will not do what is needed to maintain species sustainably.
Which is by no means a new problem, though it is good to have data. [2]
[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2522274123
[2] https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/better-breeding-in-zoos