Food, folklore and St Brigid

St Brigid’s Day, 1 February, traditionally marks the beginning of spring and the start of the agricultural year. There are special foods and other ritual celebrations, some of which delve in the pagan past.

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It is too easy to connect the dots. Sugar craving, cheap ultraprocessed calories, cheap food for enslaved sugar workers, the hidden horrors behind plenty, information deficits.

I need a pinboard and some red string.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-263-connectivity/

Nice piece from Joe Crawford summarising his history of bookmarks and current use of LinkDing on PikaPods. Me too. The one drawback I have found it that editing my tags online seems to cost me dearly. But editing the XML offline is a huge pain.

#IndieWeb

Looking for free Seville oranges for your marmalade? Or any other food to forage? The latest Eat This Newsletter has you covered, with a link to Falling Fruit, an interactive map that aspires to be “the best tool available to the contemporary forager”. And more.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-262-forage/

I enjoyed Manu's post about photography and photographers he likes, and even more his page of photographs which has a very neat script to embiggen an image with a click and then smallish it again with another click. Very cool. Worth stealing?

Latest Eat This Newsletter.: Two pieces about food and place, two pieces about the perils of industrial food, and one blast about why the food system is as rotten state as it is and, maybe, what we might do about that.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-260-consolidated/