A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
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/
Your honesty with yourself and, secondarily, with us, your readers, is impressive. I wish you a tranquil summer.
Seeing Aaron's cedar hot tub makes me nostalgic for my own Snorkel hot tub, and makes me wonder what Aaron's source of heat might be. I don't think there's room there for the sunken stove box mine had.
Just received a webmention -- micro.blog like -- from 12 February 2019. Strange ...
Eat This Newsletter 274: That Administration thwarts its own healthy ambitions, plus ancient avocados, Vietnamese food fraud, and a fight between yeast and sourdough. In the 17th century.
Read (and subscribe?) at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-274-pushmi-pullyu/
Top Album artists for the week to 3 July from last.fm
1 Katia Guerreiro 12
2 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong 11
3 Paul Simon 11
4 Randy Newman 8
5 Keith Richards & Levon Helm 1
https://www.last.fm/user/jeremycherfas
Very fine survey and assessment of the effects of blue-blocking spectacles on sleep. My screens are less blue in the evening, but I also take 1mg of melatonin every night, and that seems to work for me. Plus, the dreams. Oh, the dreams.
This month's IndieWeb Movie Club suggestion is Triplets of Bellville, the first one to have tempted me. I happen to know that the whole thing is on YT, in segments, having watched it while stuck in an empty B&B a couple of years ago. Very tempted.
Currently reading: Civilisations by Laurent Binet and Sam Taylor, ISBN: 978-1473577091
Huge fun, recommended by a friend to whom I raved about Cahokia Jazz.
Eat This Newsletter 273
Number one question: In the 17th century, did the Dutch really brush their teeth with butter?
And a bunch of other morsels.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn273-buttery/