Yay! 31 January 2007 7:01 pm
Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, WFFC, cooking, friends, restaurants, work , 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 : Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Morning Glory, books, cooking, eating, health, news, vegan, vegetarian , 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…)
