Yay! 31 January 2007 7:01 pm
Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, work, WFFC, friends, restaurants, cooking , 1 comment so farI got the job! Big love to everybody who thought good thoughts on my behalf (and extra bonus love to Beth for the cool custom card mojo). I’m training on Friday morning at 10:30, Saturday at 7, and Sunday at 10. My first solo shift will either be Monday right after class, or Tuesday afternoon, and after that I’ll be working just two days a week and random shift coverage, which is entirely perfect for my class-taking, freelance-working, WFFC-volunteering schedule. Hippieliciousness here I come! (I’m so relieved to have a cooking job that doesn’t involve vast quantities of bacon, oh yes.)
Michael Pollan versus nutritionism
Posted by Tracy in : vegan, news, health, Morning Glory, Michael Pollan, vegetarian, eating, books, Marion Nestle, cooking , 1 comment so farIt’s not all monkeys and “check out my job application” and what I had for dinner here at TracyFood, I promise (although, dear readers, if you could think good thoughts for me when I interview with Morning Glory this afternoon at 4:15, that would be all right). Sometimes I write about food stuff in the news. As I mentioned on Monday, the cover story on the most recent Sunday New York Times Magazine is an article by Michael Pollan called “Unhappy Meals.” It’s a fun read, all about the dietary confusion he called a “national eating disorder” in the introduction to his 2006 book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Only there’s a new twist. According to Pollan, you see, one of the reasons for the rise of said eating disorder (although he never calls it that in the new Times piece) is a phenomenon he calls “nutritionism” — excessive, reductionistic concern about the nutrients that may or may not be in a food, above and beyond all its other culinary, gastronomic, or even health properties. (more…)
News flash! 30 January 2007 8:15 am
Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, work, news, eugene, restaurants, friends, cooking , add a commentI finished reading (and mostly finished writing an entry about) Michael Pollan’s “Unhappy Meals” yesterday night, in part to distract myself from making print copies of my revised and updated and somehow painstakingly cut down to one page resumé (unabridged version here) and looking for places to send it. BUT! If I read the Register-Guard classified ads correctly, Morning Glory (best hippie breakfast in town) is hiring cooks, so:
Bam! Peter and I made a heroic tandem ride to drop it off stupid early this morning (like, literally an hour ago, when they hadn’t even put up the “open” sign yet).
And now for breakfast more substantial than post-heroic-ride brownies and tea. Must. Not. Go. Back. To. Bed.
Monkey Monday! 29 January 2007 9:43 am
Posted by Tracy in : news, school, sustainability, health, coconut, America's Test Kitchen, monkeys, agriculture, dessert, people, friends, anthropology, eating, books, Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle, cooking , 1 comment so farAfter long consideration and much indecision, I’ve decided to stop trying to come up with a clever alliterative food pun and name my Monday miscellany posts in honor of something even more near and dear to my heart than asinine wordplay. Henceforth Monday is Monkey Day here at TracyFood, with love to my brother Piett. And now, on with the randomness! (more…)
Ask TracyFood: Pesto is the besto 26 January 2007 12:18 pm
Posted by Tracy in : advice, vegan, recipes, vegetarian, cooking , 4 commentsSo once upon a time, some seven or eight months ago, a fine young man of my acquaintance wrote me to ask for advice about pesto, and I was delighted to write back for paragraphs. Later I got to share at great length my recommendations about various small kitchen appliances suitable for making pesto, but that’s a subject for another entry. For now, let me just say that I would love to make kitchen, cooking, and eating advice a regular feature of TracyFood, because let me tell you (in case maybe this is your first introduction to me ever and you somehow managed to miss this fact), I have opinions to spare! I will even try to make them entertaining to read, but they’ll be more useful to you personally, gentle readers, if you write me with your requests (that’s tvancort at gmail dot com). So bring ‘em on! And now: pesto. (more…)
