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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.
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.
