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Hi there!

First things first… welcome to new Spanish-speaking readers: how did you get here? Please, drop me a line and tell me.

Second, you all do not know but you just gave me a fantastic birthday present. How? Not getting hungry the newsletter is one day late, and tolerating today’s issue does not have the usual structure.

Third, yeah I might have mixed up Simone Veil and Simone Weil a couple of days ago (thanks Sandra!), so: I’m sorry about that, I’ll try not to write this during the night when I feel like a zombie and no Pedro Pascal is around to bring me to bed.

Enjoy the following stuff!

Piero

Samut Prakan, Thailand. A performer places his head inside a crocodile’s mouth at a crocodile farm and zoo, which has reopened three years after being closed because of the Covid pandemic. Photograph: Narong Sangnak/EPA

✦ Amor Towles, Rules of Civility. And it goes on: “For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)?”.

Lessons in Eatery

★★★☆☆

This one is not new, but it has a killer blurb by Brian Eno: “The only book I've ever read that made me laugh, salivate and re-evaluate my thoughts about economics – all at the same time. A funny, profound and appetising volume”.

Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang
→ Shortplot: 😵 📊 🍫 💰

🔥How to make koobideh like your baba (★recipe) 🍄The Noma Guide to Mushroom Garum 🏠The Decadent House of Valentino’s Next Creative Director 🥬White Bean Miso with Sake Braised Cabbage & Fennel (★recipe) 🍔Inside the A&W test kitchen, a battlefield in the fast food wars 🍜The 4 Major Ramen Types, Illustrated 🏙️The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City in 2024 🤷🏼‍♂️The Problem of Marital Loneliness: The very closeness of marriage makes every bit of distance palpable. Something is wrong, all the time 🍷It’s Wine corks vs Screw caps now ✈️10 Top Airports for Food and Drinks, According to the Experts 📺Thursday, April 4 there’s a Fire The Menu Livestream with Antonio & Casey 🍼Why researchers think human milk could repair the gut microbiome and reduce infections 📚The best new science fiction books of April 2024 (the 3 Body Problem guy has a new one out) 🥗How to Make a Salad You’re Actually Excited to Eat (★recipe) 🧆Bulgogi-style meatballs (★recipe) 🍣From the Archive: The Ten ‘Commandments’ of Sushi 

The Story Behind the José Andrés Nonprofit Currently Mobilized to Feed Gaza
Monica Burton / Eater

World Central Kitchen became the first group to send a ship carrying aid to Gaza. Then, a few hours ago, seven members of the team were killed in an IDF strike. World Central Kitchen is suspending operations in the region and said in a statement it will be making decisions about future work in Gaza soon.

➤ Last week's most clicked link was this Vanilla Brown Sugar Honey Butter Toast. And that's all for today.