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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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A slightly delayed post of last week’s bake. Four loaves of my Corn-ish bread; 25% Bramante maize and some olive oil in the mix.
A slightly delayed post of last week’s bake. Four loaves of my Corn-ish bread; 25% Bramante maize and some olive oil in the mix.
November 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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If this is the kind of thing you enjoy, Enjoy!

https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Food/2025/1122/cranberries-thanksgiving-indigenous-pilgrims-massachusetts-tradition?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#food #agriculture
Four workers stand in a bog raking cranberries. There is a yellow gantry and the visible water is bubbling.
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Our very own last rose of summer
Our very own last rose of summer
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Eat This Newsletter 288: Adverse

Links to good writing on those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is […]

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November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Ave Maria, seen on a fence in the local park. Behind the fence is a monument to war dead. I don’t really get it.
Ave Maria, seen on a fence in the local park. Behind the fence is a monument to war dead. I don’t really get it.
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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At the opening of a friend’s show, and her painting of a crow spoke to me.
At the opening of a friend’s show, and her painting of a crow spoke to me.
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Paradiolia on the streets of Venice
Paradiolia on the streets of Venice Paradiolia on the streets of Venice
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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@czarbucks wanted to see one of my recent projects, so here it is. A Möbius strip neck thingy, accidentally added a whole twist too many, but it still works and looks OK, at least to me.

#crochet
A sea green, crocheted neck thingy (or cowl) with is a Möbius strip with 1.5 twists instead of the required .5
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Latest episode: A Fresh Look at Domestication

A new book turns the current story of the invention of agriculture on its head. It wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Robert Spengler says the traits of domestication are […]

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Cover art showing a Neolithic sickle made of flint chips stuck to a wooden handle with bitumen or tar.
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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New episode: Revolutions are Born in Breadlines

Famine in the Volga Region in the early 1920s was a humanitarian disaster, but it began about a decade of agricultural cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United States. Anti-communists sent food and […]

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Cover artwork of a Russian stamp showing a heroic tractor of 1924
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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And we’re off on another day long trip. Berlin Rome. #CrossBorderRail
Inside of ICE railway carriage, with orange light on the ceiling and monitor showing journey details.
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Off we go. Nightjet from Bologna to Munich, so two border crossings, for which I sincerely hope they don’t wake me. The mini cabin is not claustrophobic but I’m a bit worried about the facilities. I’m sure it will be ok. #CrossBorderRail
A red Nightjet locomotive arriving at the platform with people and their luggage in front of it. Inside a mini cabin. The walls are pale grey and the curved door is open. My feet in orange socks are visible and you can just see my face reflected in the window opposite.
October 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20251027-W-AY68OD

* On foot
* 41.8811, 12.4673
* 27 October 2025
* 425.11 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap)

I’m glad Rabbit Quest was there to prompt me to get out of the house today, even if it was a very familiar urban circuit. I needed […]

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Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, looking across a busy divided road with tram tracks in the centre and a few cars parked on the far side. There is an abandoned red-brick building behind some conifers. A dog has paused to sniff at the base of a gatepost supporting iron gates in front of the building.
October 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings

The people who need a healthy diet most can’t afford one, while the people who can easily afford it don’t seem to want it.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-286-cravings/

#food #newsletter #nutrition
The cost of a healthy diet in US currency
October 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Rats! Almost home after a nice, relaxed ride with a friend when I heard a loud bang. Was't even sure it was me, but the rear tyre deflated instantly. Uh-oh. Turned out to be a hole the likes of which I have never seen before, Mended with a self-adhesive patch […]

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A black rubber bicycle tyre with a strange hole shaped like the outline of a pair of sunglasses, or eyes.
October 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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@crochet Made it, with about one metre to spare. It is roomy, and that’s OK.

#crochet
A green fingerless mitt crocheted in griddle stitch.
October 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Latest Episode: The Spice Bag

In 2008, the legend goes, staff at a Chinese takeaway in Dublin cooked themselves up a special treat after hours. Nothing too fancy, but tasty enough that soon their friends wanted the same. One thing led to another and today […]

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Cover art, with a close up of the contents of a spice bag, including chips, red and green peppers, onion and, presumably, bits of chicken
October 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Extremely nerve wracking. Do I have enough yarn left to do four more rows? Not that it matters a huge amount.

#crochet @crochet
An almost finished green crochet mitt with not much yarn left in the attached ball.
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Rabbit Quest 20251010-W-AY68O8

* On foot
* 41.8812, 12.4409
* 10 October 2025
* 423.96 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap)

Fine walk in the late afternoon sunshine. I knew I had to do this one as the closest I could easily get would be the bridge between the two sides […]

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Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, looking down on a busy two-lane road with cars and motorcycles passing by parked cars on the right. There are trees on the median strip and on the right hand side. Above and to the right is a yellow building, an old barn, inside the local park, with a line of umbrella pines and other large trees.
October 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Revisiting Historical Recipes

After you’ve found an historic recipe, sourced correct ingredients, figured out imprecise quantities, and grappled with instructions that are often little more than a reminder for someone who already knows how to cook the dish […]

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Cover artwork, with a detail from a 17th century Dutch still-life of a fruit pie.
October 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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New episode: The Miracle of Salt

A new book from Naomi Duguid is always a treat; The Miracle of Salt is no exception. From Acadian salted scallions to zucchini in golden sand sauce (you’ll first need to make some brined egg yolks), seasoned with chapters on […]

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Cover artwork. Close-up of a pyramidal crystal of Maldon sea salt on someone’s pink fingertip.
September 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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When life, via the tree on the terrace, gives you limes …

Now we wait 48 hours

#food #pickles #fermentation
A glass bowl of limes sliced into eighths. Behind is a steel colander containing more green limes not yet cut up. A wooden chopping board on which are resting 40 cloves of garlic, give or take, and a large chef’s knife which will be used to smash and peel the garlic before adding it to the bowl of cut up limes in the glass bowl in the top left corner. A pair of hands in blue nitrile gloves squeezing the cut up limes and garlic in a glass bowl to release the juice of the limes. A preserving jar containing the cut up limes, smashed garlic and ground chilli peppers, sitting out in the sun and flanked by cacti.
September 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Something got into me today and I barely stopped cooking. Tasteless plums called for a sort of tart with added peaches and homemade short crust pastry. And then that called for proper custard. All after baking four loaves of sourdough bread and spaghetti […]

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A white bowl containing a slice of plum and peach pie just visible under some yellow homemade custard
September 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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To kick off European Mobility Week I went for a nice ride last Sunday organised by #salvaciclisti in an area I scarcely know. I was amazed how many dedicated cycle paths there were, far more than in my area. We ended up at community-run organic allotments […]

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A group of cyclists seen from behind on a newly surfaced red cycle path with some apartment buildings on the left and a large road on the left. Cyclists and bicycles in a green area with a white gazebo over tables carrying fresh water. In the background are lines of umbrella pines and a large green space with light clouds in a blue sky
September 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Leacutter bees bound to cut leaves.
A hollow bamboo in a chair in which can be seen small pieces of green leaves, placed there by a leafcutter bee to line and cap her nest. Rose leaves on a miniature rose with neat circular holes chewed out by leafcutter bees.
September 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM