Eat This Podcast: A Berliner Speaks
New month, new episode, a chat with Berliner Luisa Weiss about how she became a food blogger, how that changed her life, and how the Berlin food scene is changing.
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“Through the acidification of the internet, blogs long ago stopped being usable.”
I think we all know what the speaker actually said.
German speakers: I believe there is a work that sounds a lot like eckkanter, meaning a corner bar, possibly only in Berlin. But online it seems to be a kind of woodworking machine.
What is the correct word, please. #German
Edit: Answer found. Eckkneipe. Thank you fediverse.
A slightly delayed post of last week’s bake. Four loaves of my Corn-ish bread; 25% Bramante maize and some olive oil in the mix.
If this is the kind of thing you enjoy, Enjoy!
Made my day. How about yours?
Our very own last rose of summer
And you can listen to my interview with John Mulcahy, should you so wish.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/spice-bag/
https://mastodon.ie/@LiamGilmartin/115616302485568595
Eat This Newsletter 288: Adverse
Links to good writing on those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
Read it at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-288-adverse/ and while you're there, consider subscribing
Ave Maria, seen on a fence in the local park. Behind the fence is a monument to war dead. I don’t really get it.
It’s too nice an afternoon to spend indoors finishing up tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter, but someone has to examine a case in which US food safety regulation is more stringent than the EU’s.
Sign up at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/ to get it.
At the opening of a friend’s show, and her painting of a crow spoke to me.
Aliwagwag?????
https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/115587631952025949
@Documentally Re your local speciality of noodles, chips and curry sauce, a couple of bits of vegetable and you might have an evolved spice bag.
This post, and especially the final paragraph, deserves to be hoisted from my own archive 18 years on.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005140.html
Paradiolia on the streets of Venice
@czarbucks wanted to see one of my recent projects, so here it is. A Möbius strip neck thingy, accidentally added a whole twist too many, but it still works and looks OK, at least to me.
Photo Mechanic going end of life on the current version is a major downer. They do, to their credit, offer a one-off fee and a subscription option, but $150 a year for the standard option, which does not search across multiple folders, is a bit steep for me. What do people use?
Latest episode: A Fresh Look at Domestication
A new book turns the current story of the invention of agriculture on its head. It wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Robert Spengler says the traits of domestication are simply a response to changes in the environment, changes humans promoted , but with no idea of being able to select better crops or livestock. Domestication just happened.
More, from Marion Nestle, on the ByHeart baby botulism problem.
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-something-i-wanted-to-see-botulism-in-infant-formula/
Seeing the company wriggle and say that the Clostridium found in a sample could have come from elsewhere tells me all I need to know.
There's greenwashing, and then there's GREENWASHING. In this issue, an example of the former that unites Italy and Japan, and two examples of the latter that beggar belief.
Oh, and ... another food safety problem for the United States.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-287-cynical/
Eat This Newsletter 287: Cynical
Some stories that on the surface seem like all good news, although I can’t help feeling that there’s not much below the surface.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-287-cynical/
Patience is its own reward, or some such tosh.
https://mas.to/@meganL/115508893193957149
My report of the first day of last weekend’s IndieWeb Camp in Berlin.
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/indieweb-camp-berlin-2025
New episode: Revolutions are Born in Breadlines
Famine in the Volga Region in the early 1920s was a humanitarian disaster, but it began about a decade of agricultural cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United States. Anti-communists sent food and medical assistance. Communist sympathisers sent tractors. Experts from each country visited the other to teach and to learn.
Maria Fedorova documents this impact of the famine in her new book.
Final leg, Verona Rome, with a 6€ upgrade to 1st class.
Never noticed before that the jiggling of a train ride is enough to persuade my Apple watch that I have been standing up.
Controlled by Italian police at Brenner. Not sure why they picked on me as the only person to check in this carriage. Maybe it was my kefiyah #CrossBorderRail
Leaving Munich for stage two through Austria to Italy. #CrossBorderRail
The bit that really made me sit up and take notice in Peter Molnar's account of his new listening set up was the 2TB micro-SD card. For less than $200. Truly, the future has arrived.