Latest Eat This Newsletter battles through the heat to bring you cyclospora, doubts about the wisdom of medieval food systems, and the Ur-scapegoat in Iran's rainmaker. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #food #agriculture #farming

Eat This Newsletter 311: Scrambled

Hello It remains too hot to think, and quite by coincidence, for sure, as far as food news goes, I have had very little to think about this past week....

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Those look tasty.

Agrobiodiverse@agrobiodiverse.bsky.social · 3d ago

Kenyan tradition, served fast – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/trad... #biodiversity #conservation #genebanks #OpportunityCrops

Frozen amaranth and old memories – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/08/froz... #vegetables #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #genebanks #conservation #opportunitycrops

Frozen amaranth and old memories

Coming across this new (at least for me) frozen amaranth product in a Nairobi supermarket yesterday... ...reminded me that the Amaranth Institute Symposium 2026 is coming up soon. It really is amazing...

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It’s always odd to me when I get asked if I am wearing a mask because I am sick. In my experience, these days most people wearing a mask are doing so to prevent themselves getting sick, and most people who are sick don’t wear a mask at all.

Consumers are feeling bad vibes about the state of food safety in the U.S., and moving away from fresh produce as Trump administration pushes ‘Eat real food’ message. foodfix.co/most-america...

Most Americans lack confidence in government’s food safety oversight

Consumers are feeling bad vibes about the state of food safety in the U.S., and moving away from fresh produce as Trump administration pushes ‘Eat real food’ message.

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Nibbles: Tigray grapes, Latin American opportunity crops, Hawaii & Cayman coconuts, North Macedonian collecting, South Korea seed vault, Eswatini seed hub, Expensive healthy diets – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/07/nibb... #conseration #agrobiodiversity #genebanks

It's great that the US military is offering vegan meals ready-to-eat but the way things are going, will there be enough vegans left to eat them? ambrook.com/offrange/cul... #vegan #food

This is important. A false positive is by no means the same as a negative, although as Kaiser Fung explains, that does require a bit of (slow) thinking. www.junkcharts.com/slow-thinkin... #cyclospora #foodsafety #statistics

Slow thinking required

What is a false positive?

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In the last 24 hours I have parked my car (license plate ZEA MAYS) next to a car with license plate CEREALS and then one that is MUTATOR. Davis is a normal town.

The food industry keeps losing lawsuits, but still they keep ‘em coming. Eat This Newsletter looks at that, cryptospora in the USA and Europe, the EU’s need to support a healthier diet, waves of interest in nutrition, and the warm Middle Ages. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #food #agriculture

Eat This Newsletter 310: Focussed

Hello We had a brief respite from the heat last week, but things are ramping up again. Does that make me want to be back in the Middle Ages? Not really. And...

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This is important. For all the talk, very little is improving in the #SDG for nutrition.

Jess Fanzo@jessfanzo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Has #nutrition been lost in the #foodsystems agenda? My thoughts on why nutrition must remain visible — not just as part of the conversation, but as a priority in its own right. www.thenutritionarchive.com/blog/2026/7/...

Thanks.

Aliki Chapple@commonmugwort.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can anyone help?

Long shot. Anyone here know Scott Craig, of dallasfood.org and exposé of Mast Brothers Chocolate? I would like to get in touch. #Dallas #food

Latest newsletter looks at various ways consolidation in farming and food ends up having bad consequences, and they're not even unforeseen, they're the point. Also, why we won't eat the bugs; it's not in our DNA. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #food #agriculture

Eat This Newsletter 309: Wonky Patterns

Hello This ought to be the silly season, when the stories are all man eats dogfood. This week’s haul tells a very different tale, of the power of big...

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Brainfood: Collaboration edition – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/07/brai... #agrobiodiversity #conservation #genebanks #sustainabledevelopment #biodiversity #nutrition

Nibbles: Apple-banana paradox, #Genebanks, Indian wheat, Indian wild rice, Kenya community #seed banks, Wild coffee, Macadamia history, Taro research, Cacti – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/07/nibb... #conservation #agrobiodiversity #plantbreeding

Brainfood: Wild chickpea, Feral brassica, Peruvian cacao, Panamanian cacao, Tree diversity, Healthy diets in PNG – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/07/brai... #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #conservation #wildrelatives

Eat This Newsletter: Wakelyns needs supporters to become a fitting remembrance for Martin Wolfe, a great pioneer of agricultural biodiversity. Plus "wasted" calories, ultra-processed foods, and cyclosporiasis so far. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #newsletter #food #agriculture

Eat This Newsletter 308: Resilient

Hello Happy to share a small part of my own origin story today, besides a bit of wonky stuff and some explosive news. Help Save Wakelyns This one is...

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I'm looking for women who have lost weight on GLP-1s. I'm interested in how it's affecting you emotionally. Are you relieved to find something that works? Grumpy from side-effects? More confident in a thin-oriented society? Elated? Disappointed? DMs are open. I won't use names. RTs appreciated.

'preciated.

Agrobiodiverse@agrobiodiverse.bsky.social · 4w ago

The proof is in the breeding – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/07/the-... #genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #chefs #biodiversity #plantbreeding #cooking

Latest Eat this Newsletter offers insights into a cool museum, restrictive plant varieties, and better breeding that is not restrictive. Get it at buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... and consider subscribing while you're there. #newsletter #food

Eat This Newsletter 307: Free

Hello The heat continues, and so does the gathering of goodies wherever I may find them. I hope you are coping, wherever you are. Cool Museum One excellent...

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Brainfood: Easter Island coffee, Sword bean, Sweetpotato names, Colombian potatoes, Nut grass, Market access, Pollinators, Seed microorganisms – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/07/brai... #conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity

This is important. Yes, local chickens could do with some improvement. No, that does not require importing pure-line hybrids and the technology to enable them to survive. Wish I could be there.

GRAIN@grain.org · last mo.

Chickens are fundamental to food, health, livelihoods & culture across Africa. Yet govts are pushing to replace local breeds with exotic hybrids. Join us at the WSF in Benin on 5 Aug for a workshop on the invasion of corporate poultry & how we can fight back! 🐓 Register: forms.gle/aJYpb69Gwx2Q...

Playing around with wild potatoes – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/07/play... #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #cropwildrelatives #genebanks

Playing around with wild potatoes

Journey through 1946's South America to find and collect wild potato plants, which might hold the key to defeat the blight affecting British crops. Choose your route, solve puzzles, and learn more abo...

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Check out the latest Food Bytes from The Food Archive. What's up this month? El Niño, UPFs, displacement, Rebecca Solnit, Rothko!, Violent Femmes! & some of the best of what I have been reading lately in books, reports, & peer-reviewed literature across food, nutrition, & climate. shorturl.at/k0gkz

Just finished tomorrow's Eat This Newsletter: ube, menus, brambles, slop, not slop and not good either, and beef. Just in case my brain is scrambled and I forget to announce it here, make sure you get it by signing up at buttondown.email/jeremycherfa... #food #newsletter

Nibbles: Cayman coconuts, Wild beans, Breeding Bambara, Aussie genebank, Amazonian ag – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/06/nibb... #conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity

There is a strand of thought out there that believes any and all legislation to do with seeds is evil and unnecesary. It is wrong. Here’s why. jeremycherfas.net/blog/why-we-...

A colleague once asked me why my copy had a couple of TKs in it. I told her that it stood for to come, and that it would be flagged up by spell checkers because the combination TK did not appear in any words. OK, catkin, she replied.

Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com · last mo.

lol did they now

Among the gems Jeremy has included in his latest Eat This Newsletter are an essay on the potato in Belarus and a visual guide to the peppers of the world. Very tasty. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...

Eat This Newsletter 305: Hot

Hello It has been a funny week, with temperatures up in brain-scrambling territory. If this issue is late, which it may well be, that’s because I spent...

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