I think I’m in love. 24 January 2007 11:23 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking, cooking, dessert, friends, news, vegan , add a commentBig ups to my friend Debbie for pointing me to this New York Times article about some brand-new culinary role models of mine. I wonder if Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero, or anybody else at The Post-Punk Kitchen likes tea. If so, they’re way ahead of me on the path to the punk rock teahouse of my dreams. I mean, they’ve even got a badass catchy theme song, for Pippi’s sake. Sheesh.
I wonder if they’re hiring. Heck, I wonder if they’d even have not really punk but vaguely hippie little nonvegan me, especially since baking, let alone vegan baking, isn’t really my kitchen forté. And of course there’s that pesky little geographical problem between us. Still, I’m totally going to try the cupcake recipe the Times published with their profile, although first I will keep checking out their site and shows for more delicious inspiration. And tomorrow I’ll be posting about a kickass vegan bread recipe, which practically makes this Lovin’ from the Oven Week here at TracyFood. Woo!
ENVS 411 Reading Summary: Seeds and Genetically Modified Organisms
Posted by Tracy in : GMOs, agriculture, books, environment, school, sundance, sustainability , add a commentSo we finished watching The Future of Food in my environmental studies class, Sustainable Agriculture, today. It’s still a really painful movie, full of rhetoric that makes me want to disagree even when the facts are on my side, but I took notes and will compose an appropriately snarky response in the not-too-distant future. (We also watched a little clip from an older PBS special called Harvest of Fear, which might be worth checking out at some point if the library’s still got it.) In the meantime, this week’s assigned readings were:
“Global Claims” and “Epilogue: The Story” from Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money and the Future of Food by Daniel Charles (2001)
“The Genie in the Genome: Bioengineering in Context” and “In Wildness is the Preservation of the World: Sustaining Traditional Farming and Genetic Resources” from Food’s Frontier: The Next Green Revolution by Richard Manning (2000)
“Globalization and the War Against Farmers and the Land” by Vandana Shiva, from The Essential Agrarian Reader (Norman Wirzba, ed. 2003)
“Sowing Disaster? How Genetically Engineered American Corn Has Altered the Global Landscape” by Mark Shapiro (The Nation, 28 October 2002).
and here’s a slightly modified version of my original two-page response to those readings, complete with a preview of my Future of Food rant at the end. Also references to ninjas and whup-ass in the beginning, which got a cautious “that’s, um, original” comment from the grader, to which I can only say, “yay! I got away with rampant silliness!” (more…)
