Eat This Podcast

Biologist, baker, Eat This Podcast maker. I live in Rome, like to walk and ride my bicycle, and am probably too opinionated.

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Location: Italy

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2026-03-15 15:22:06 UTC

A neighbourhood Bruggmansia in full flower.
#gardening
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2026-02-23 17:36:39 UTC

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I hope you have read Cahokia Jazz, by Frances Spufford. It doesn't address your need, but it is a Very Good Read. Helps to have a bit of Wengrow and Graeber, but not at all essential.

2026-01-31 14:02:43 UTC

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Springsteen in Brighton, around 1980. Had tickets, but a family tragedy intervened.

2026-01-24 12:34:00 UTC

There's a new paper in PNAS [1] (paywalled) showing that zoo populations of mammals in North America and Europe are getting older because zoos will not do what is needed to maintain species sustainably.
Which is by no means a new problem, though it is good to have data. [2]
[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2522274123
[2] https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/better-breeding-in-zoos
#zoos #conservation

2026-01-02 18:40:49 UTC

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I think they may be liquidambar fruits. Red gum or sweet gum.

2025-10-19 15:12:23 UTC

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because you are way up high?

2025-10-19 05:59:14 UTC

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Agreed. I want to go back and see more of the area, maybe with binoculars to look at the details up high. I wish I knew someone who lived there.

2025-10-18 16:41:00 UTC

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Those pesky diacritical. I hope it is fixed now

2025-10-17 10:32:42 UTC

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Bugger. Fixed. Thanks.

2025-10-17 09:27:07 UTC

Went for a wander through a visually very interesting part of town a couple of days ago.
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/the-quartiere-coppedé
#Rome

2025-10-10 14:02:44 UTC

I might be inviting trouble here, but something my guest said on the latest episode of the podcast led me to do some digging, and that led me to write Is Histamine Intolerance a Thing?
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/is-histamine-intolerance-a-thing
#histamine #fermentation

2025-09-30 20:39:45 UTC

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Mickey and Minnie.

2025-09-23 06:03:31 UTC

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I couldn’t find a source for the screenshot but found plenty of examples by searching for TikTok music festival LA

2025-09-11 08:27:20 UTC

Reluctantly, I use What’s App to communicate with a few friends and family who really do not want to change their ways. My name and number are thus available to anyone who wants to message me, and usually I am able to find another way to reply and suggest that they use Signal or plain ol’ email. That scenario poayed out perfectly earlier this week. Today, Instagram recommended I follow the person involved. And that is why I am reluctant.

2025-08-29 15:34:39 UTC

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They look to me like snapdragons, albeit yellow ones. Antirhinum spp.

2025-08-27 14:24:43 UTC

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Cruising for a bruising, for sure.

2025-08-10 06:49:09 UTC

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Some people will never fail to challenge one’s faith in humanity.

2025-08-07 10:43:44 UTC

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Small wins for the win.

2025-08-03 11:59:35 UTC

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Smart fox. We have one local to our current gaff, and walking around I have noticed that others in the ‘hood tend to leave their markings at the edge of the road. I’ve contemplated picking one up and bringing it here in the hope of causing mayhem as out fox investigates the interloper. But decided against it.

2025-07-25 11:29:12 UTC

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Looks great. I hope you had a pot of boiling water ready! The fresher the corn, the better it tastes.

2025-07-24 09:09:02 UTC

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The specialist in exotica at our local mercato does have rhubarb and parsnips from time to time. Last I checked, they were both €18 a kg. I may miss them, but not that much.

2025-07-24 08:54:18 UTC

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I do miss rhubarb. And parsnips.

2025-07-24 08:52:33 UTC

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The popcorn will pollinate sweetcorn, in my experience, so when you see silks on additional ears of sweetcorn, if there are tassels on the popcorn, cut one off and dust the silks with it.

2025-07-24 06:12:37 UTC

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Butting in here to suggest incomplete pollination, and that those kernels will probably not develop.

2025-07-14 14:34:14 UTC

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/
#newsletter #agriculture #food

2025-07-07 19:24:36 UTC

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Ah well. We’re in Umbria and had a massive storm last night, but very few fireflies so far.

2025-07-07 17:06:47 UTC

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Lots of fireflies too?

2025-06-24 09:02:12 UTC

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I can relate, although my dog had a particular fascination for wellington boots, which was considerate.

2025-06-13 10:03:46 UTC

I guess this is what happens when Google Maps uses adjacent tiles taken at very different times of the year, although I cannot say I have ever noticed it before.
#geolocation
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2025-06-06 15:04:38 UTC

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caught in time, though, so that’s a win.

2025-06-02 09:40:46 UTC

Anybody know of maps that reconstruct land use patterns in Europe over the past 1000 years or so?
Boosts welcome.
#askfedi #geography #environment

2025-05-26 08:20:20 UTC

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Put the dirt tray outside.

2025-05-23 16:46:19 UTC

No smell in gardening is as potent or as promising as freshly removed tomato side shoots. That is all.
#gardening #tomatoes
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2025-04-30 05:38:02 UTC

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Couldn’t you hedge your bets by planting out half of them? Or do you start only the exact number you need? (Something I am incapable of.)

2025-04-25 12:52:04 UTC

Hard to believe, but this chilli seedling just emerged, having been sown along with its neighbour on 10 February. I know chilli seeds can be slow to get going, but 10 weeks? What was it doing all that time?
#gardening #seeds
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2025-03-08 10:30:49 UTC

Chilli pepper seedling from a friend's plant, which still had fruit in February, 26 days after sowing and probably a day before I was about to give up all hope.
#seeds #gardening
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2024-12-27 09:34:32 UTC

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And yet … the UK has the lowest cost of a healthy diet of all countries in Europe. The World Bank reckons only 2.5% of the population cannot afford a healthy diet. So something else is definitely going on.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/icp/brief/foodpricesfornutrition#:~:text=Cost%20of%20a%20healthy%20diet%20and%20the%20population%20unable%20to%20afford%20the%20diet%20in%20countries
#food #nutrition

2024-12-19 07:03:41 UTC

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As far as I can tell, I have a Stripe account and my few paid subscribers pay that directly. Buttondown charges a fee but at my tier I do not believe they take any percentage.
I also believe Justin’s main job is with Stripe, so he may have additional insights.