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IWC BER 2025
New episode: Cooking in Maximum Security
Very unexpected, on the one hand, to learn that prisoners in Italian maximum security prisons have a right to cook in their cells, and yet also somehow fitting. And the ingredients they can get; kid goat, for example, and red wine for whatever needs it. Also, the sheer inventiveness of creating the tools they need and that they can't just order from the commissary.
Could someone tell me — who has never used the stuff -- what is crisp about chilli crisp?
Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20251219-B-AY68O8
* On foot
* 41.8703, 12.4458
* 8 December 2025
* 427.73 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.870263&mlon=12.455828#map=14/41.87026/12.45583
Another occasion on which the Quest provided the kick I needed to go for a walk, to the bicycle location, as it happens, which was closer and a better walk than the foot location today.
Well, that’s nice. Today is the 10th birthday of my current CMS.
Ready to deploy? https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/ready-to-deploy
Just a small detail, but a wonder to behold in the Treasures of the Pharoahs exhibition at the Scuderie.
The latest newsletter from @Documentally prompted me to climb up on one of my many hobby horses.
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/not-disgusting-unfamiliar
What if I told you that I know exactly how to ensure that the gift you give is exactly what the recipient wants?
Consumer Brands Association “about as Big Ultra-Processed Food as you can get” launches a campaign[1].
“The concept of ultra-processing is an existential threat to the companies that make such products. The CBA’s all-out effort to discredit the concept is a tribute to how powerful it is.”
A good reason to remind you that “Food Facts Are Not the Answer to Fear of Foods” [2].
[1] https://www.foodpolitics.com/2025/12/https-www-foodpolitics-com-2025-12-28072/
Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20251208-W-AY68O8
* On bicycle
* 41.8811, 12.4440
* 8 December 2025
* 427.32 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://rabbit-rabbit.quest/#mode=walkable&map=41.88113/12.44397/16)
Put new tyres and tubes on the bike so took it out into the park where there happened to be a Rabbit to bag. Bike rode smoothly and managed to get on top of the Quest, at least according to the phone.
New tyres and tubes on both wheels;
Schwalbe Marathon Plus. Installed easily enough with a Tyre Glider and plenty of clearance. I was about to take off on a test ride but the brakes aren’t very well adjusted, so I had to come upstairs and ask Calvin at Park Tools to take me through that as a refresher. Now I guess I'll wait until after lunch.
Tucked away for the winter, two frangipani making good use of a bidet.
Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20251207-W-AY68OD
* On foot
* 41.8696, 12.4745
* 7 December 2025
* 427.28 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://rabbit-rabbit.quest/#mode=walkable&map=41.86963/12.47449/16)
Rabbit Quest to the rescue again to pull me out of a bit of a Sunday afternoon funk. Down in my old ‘hood, where the gasometer and other hulking relics of the old coal-powered generating stations loom over the river.
No idea what this is. Maybe some kind of gall, but it had the look and feel of hard shiny plastic.
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.
Annals of Machine Transcription:
“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.