Jeremy Cherfas

After 10 years as a commercial cheesemaker, Trevor Warmedahl set off to learn about “other, older ways to go about the fermentation of milk and the care of dairy livestock and the making of cheese”.

https://eatthispodcast.com/cheese-trek

On the ground, arms flap

Tree high parakeets gaze down

Qi Gong in the park

* On foot
* 41.8873, 12.4734
* 15 March 2026
* 428.94 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

A fitting rabbit for the Ides of March, the Pope’s Tobacco Factory. I did walk past, much closer to the actual Rabbit, but could not pass up the opportunity to snap what might such a significant building.

Extra virgin olive oil appeared in 1960, after a decade of scandalous adulteration. Then, it denoted quality. Today, not so much. “I would argue,” says Carl Ipsen, “that a bigger problem today than fraud is transportation and storage.”

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Some people will tell you the food system is broken. Not so, say Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg. Their new book is subtitled Why Industrial Food Is Good and How To Make It Even Better.

We had a long and interesting chat, everything from cellular agriculture to labour in the food industry.

https://eatthispodcast.com/ftp

”I like to say that I was a garlic smuggler for the mafia, which I was, but there’s more to the story than that.”

@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social reflects on his time in a federal penitentiary, where the kinds of cooking Italian maximum security inmates get up to would have been completely unthinkable.

https://eatthispodcast.com/lewisburg

* On foot
* 41.8867, 12.4664
* 9 February 2026
* 428.77 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

How very pleasant. Today’s quest was just to the side of what some people cite as the jewel of the Renaissance architecture, Bramante’s Tempietto. I couldn’t get any closer today, though I have been inside on other occasions.

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* On foot
* 41.8703, 12.4458
* 8 December 2025
* 427.73 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

Another occasion on which the Quest provided the kick I needed to go for a walk, to the bicycle location, as it happens, which was closer and a btter walk than the foot location today.

Put new tyres and tubes on the bike so took it out into the park where there happened to be a Rabbit to bag. Bike rode smoothly and managed to get on top of the Quest, at least according to the phone.

* On bicycle
* 41.8811, 12.4440
* 8 December 2025
* 427.32 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap