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Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Latest Eat This Newsletter, and the last one of the year. From pedants on pintxos to bread and circuses, all your food-adjacent reading needs.

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Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-12-26

1 min read

A tin of Swedish ansjovis with the lid half open showing the silvery fish within. The background is an unopened tin, prink with yellow lettering and two red fish on it.

Not to be overshadowed by Rita Hayworth and Gilda, the latest Eat This Podcast also looks into The Swedish Conundrum.

What are Swedes getting when they open a tin of “ansjovis”? Not anchovies. Or at least, not Engraulis encrasicolus.

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/gilda/

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-12-24

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1 min read

Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, the Colosseum, an ancient Roman brick and stone structure with three tiers of arches and a top tier with rectangular window openings.

* On bus
* 41.889492, 12.491804
* 26 December 2024
* 425.45 ppm CO2
OpenStreetMap

My first drive-by rabbit. And I only noticed it once I was on the bus and looking distractedly at my phone. Probably doesn't count in the greater scheme of things, but what the heck.

Jeremy Cherfas

Latest episode considers possibly the original pintxo. A plump Cantabrian anchovy, a spicy pickled guindilla pepper, and a juicy green olive, skewered on a toothpick. It's invention is contested, but not its name, nor the inspiration for that name: Gilda.

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/gilda/

Jeremy Cherfas

The stories of Daniel Dennett

Interesting take on the roots of Dan Dennett’s ideas, which did indeed clarify some of them for me.

Jeremy Cherfas

Under Robin Sloan's reading, I fail to see any distinction between cults and tribes.