I feel the same, and am now tempted to rename Miscellaneous to Dunno.

Time again for Eat This Newsletter.

- Some things called pepper
- Welsh oats
- Chickens with olives
- Hot potatoes
- Civil Eats’ Food Policy Tracker

Read (and subscribe) at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-267-more-diversity/

Thanks for the introduction to wikiloc.

Might just be me, but Apple’s launchctl seems badly broken, at least for new services. Followed https://www.navidrome.org/docs/installation/macos/ to the letter, and it just doesn’t work. The exactly same command directly from the terminal works perfectly. Cannot figure it out, but it seems I am not alone.

New episode: Quinoa’s Rise and Fall

Between 2007 and 2014 farmers on the altiplano of Peru saw their income from quinoa increase by almost 900%. The boom was followed even more quickly by a bust.

https://eatthispodcast.com/quinoa

It is good to share some of the downs as well as the ups or even the plain level-going. I sometimes censor myself from sharing all the joy because I don't want to give the impression that everything is always perfect, but it darn near is, for which I am grateful.

Most people know that Jewish dietary laws forbid pork. A new book asks why the pig — rather than any of the other animals banned by the Hebrew bible — should have become so inextricably bound up with Jewish identity.

https://eatthispodcast.com/pigs

Just wow! https://www.c82.net/natural-colors/

The Natural System of Colours: Recreating Moses Harris’ color wheels from the eighteenth century.

h/t https://anhvn.com/posts/2025/weeknotes-29/

Eat This Newsletter, for your delectation.

- 16,000 calories per calorie: isn’t that rather inefficient?
- NuFood: ready for water lentils?
- Marmalade, membrillo: what’s the difference?

And more, at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-265-past-and-future/

I think my problem with Douthat and this essay is that I just don't find myself attracted to systems of belief, any systems of belief. To be a part of life, yes, but no more than a part, and a part with no special talents beyond self-destruction -- which is easier maybe if life eternal beckons.