Direct from Polignano a Mare, Flavia Giordano's love letter to Puglia's unique foods and ingredients, including some remarkable biodiversity. Melons eaten unripe, colourful carrots, and sporchia, a broomrape parasitic on broad beans.
As I was saying, Chris Smaje is always worth reading.
"It’s hardly original to observe that, in the Greek, apocalypse means a revelation or uncovering. ... we need to embrace what apocalypse is revealing to us, while for sure trying to mitigate the miseries it inevitably entails."
@withknown is being exceedingly dumb today, refusing to accept a bookmark that happens to contain greek letters. So let's try here.
https://chrissmaje.com/2025/05/finding-lights-in-a-dark-age-or-writing-ἀποκάλυψις/
Top artists last week.
1. Billie Holiday 16
2. John Hiatt 11
3. Pat Metheny 11
4. Warren Zevon 11
5. Madredeus 10
Maybe: Hoping to have time.
Top Album Artists last week
1. Willie Nelson 14
2. Cowboy Junkies 12
3. Levon Helm 12
4. Oscar Peterson 11
5. John Coltrane 7
2025-05-05
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“Salt is a powerful thing. It ensures well-being, it cures, it pleases guests, and it attracts males. And it was brought from a mystical garden. To teach girls how to manage this power must have been an ongoing challenge for the elders.”
Read (and subscribe) at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-269-salted-butter/
TIL about the -c flag in rsync, which skips files based on checksum. The big benefit to me is that it preserves modification times, making it easier to find what I’m looking for. They say it takes more processor time; I don’t care. Hope there are no gotchas.
Got to be a win all round.