What do absinthe and upland rice have in common?
Answers in tomorrow’s Eat this Newsletter. Subscribe at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas#subscribe-form?tag=direct
What has the Assumption of the Virgin Mary to do with the middle of August? Is she just another in a long line of Mother Goddesses? Why is Virgo carrying a wheatsheaf?
Some answers in https://www.eatthispodcast.com/our-daily-bread-15/ from my month of daily podcasts on wheat in 2018
Podcasters: About to record my first episode using Zoom. I normally record from FaceTime and Skype (RIP) mix-minus to my DAW. It is worth doing the same as a backup for Zoom’s local recording?
I guess I'm asking how reliable is Zoom's local recording.
Eat This Newsletter 279: No Excuses
An attack on industrial agriculture.
Science-based fisheries management works.
Beware the poppy seed, and dodgy drug tests.
Read it at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-279-no-excuses/
What a rare treat. Someone recommends an episode of a podcast I don't subscribe to. I go to the page in question. I like the look of it. I attempt to Huffudff the episode. It Just Works. I carry on about my business. The end.
I'm not sure I ever forgot how to surf the web, but in case you have, David Cain spells it out at his blog Raptitude: https://www.raptitude.com/2025/06/how-to-surf-the-web-in-2025-and-why-you-should/
And in keeping with his advice, I got there from Tim Bray's latest collection of Long Links: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/04/Long-Links
I would also repeat: use RSS
Eat This Newsletter 277: Latest scientific research predicts it is only a matter of time before some valiant entrepreneur offers freeze-dried maggot supplements to gullible eat-like-a- Neanderthal knuckleheads.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-277-empty-calories/
I vaguely knew, in a theoretical way, about S-spun and Z-spun yarns, but not about their impact on crochet and knitting. Finally, buried deep within the useless and the slop, a site that was very helpful.
https://yarnsub.com/articles/twist
Eat This Newsletter 276: Sharp practice is alive and well marketing dairy products to countries in Africa, as Ireland's big dairies know well. Also, food deserts, colourful carrots, garlic seeds, and Neanderthal butchery styles.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-276-diversities/
Eat This Newsletter 275
* Neanderthal fat factory; yes they could
* A history of school lunches in the USA; unintended consequences
* Pity the Snack Food Giants; sales plunge
* Big not-so-pink trouble in the rice fields.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-275-infrastructure/