Over/Under #82 with Jeremy Cherfas

This week my guest is Jeremy Cherfas. He’s a biologist by degree, but has worked in different fields. Jeremy has a great blog, and also a great podcast about food: Eat this podcast. Highly recommended. I like his little log part where he tracks things he watched. You can follow him on Mastodon. Here are the topics I picked up for him ⤵️ Cycling Underrated, for sure. Bicycles (and tricycles) are such efficient machines it is very hard to understand why more people aren’t using them for simple little journeys. I’m not saying everyone needs a cargo bike, but any trip within 5km ought to be fine. Of course I understand the problems. Some times and some places it is too hot or too wet or too cold, but mostly it isn’t. Car and van and truck drivers DO want to kill us. Cities are in thrall to the murderers and unenlightened shopkeepers, so they fail to build safe infrastructure. But build it, and they will come. I don’t enjoy cycling as often as I would like to, mostly because of…