Recipe: Whole wheat no-knead bread (for Liz) 25 January 2007 11:28 am
Posted by Tracy in : vegan, baking, tea, recipes, hungry planet, friends, eating, cooking , 5 commentsSorting my Hungry Tracy data into food groups and counting what kinds of food I ate most frequently (see here) was useful for a lot of reasons, much more than just writing down the daily food logs. My very first observation (a suspicion confirmed even from just writing down the food logs) was that I sure do drink a lot of tea. If tea had calories, it might well be my superfood. (I suspect that there are people out there who drink soft drinks like I drink tea, in which case their superfood is high fructose corn syrup, which could go a long way towards explaining the industrialized world’s weird epidemic of obesity masking malnutrition. But I digress.) Instead, it turns out that my superfood is probably bread, and in particular homemade whole-wheat no-knead bread, of which I ate an estimated 24 servings during my Hungry Tracy week last December — more servings, in fact, than of any one kind of tea! I have more to say about the results of my Hungry Tracy project and my eating habits in general, but in the meantime, to celebrate the fact that I have a superfood after all (one that is in fact a delicious Tracy food indeed, and to my ever-loving surprise, even vegan), and because my dear friend Liz emailed me last week to ask about it, here is the recipe for that bread: (more…)
I think I’m in love. 24 January 2007 11:23 pm
Posted by Tracy in : news, baking, vegan, dessert, friends, cooking , 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 : school, GMOs, environment, sustainability, sundance, agriculture, books , 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…)
Hungry Tracy: Food log summary 23 January 2007 12:55 pm
Posted by Tracy in : soup, cheese, tea, hungry planet, CSA, eating, books, anthropology , add a commentHungry Tracy? What’s that all about?
One Week’s Food in December
I tried to sort everything recorded in my daily food logs into the categories defined in Hungry Planet but didn’t use exact measurements. Numbers in parentheses behind an item indicate the number of times said item was eaten, or a rough guess of how many portions of that item were eaten (note how I’m not even trying to count servings, just to give myself a little extra wiggle room for the amounts I didn’t measure even a little). As in the book, brand names are in italics; I think many of the items marked with a brand name could probably be considered prepared foods, as could noodles and even frozen peas. You’ll see plenty of notes in my “data” (boy is that ever a loosely-defined term here) about these and other ambiguities. Just about all the fresh vegetables are from our CSA farm, Groundwork Organics. (We got the flyer for their 2007 summer CSA just a few days ago, and it is like a beautiful ray of hope for these dark, cold times of forgetting to eat our vegetables because they’re not overflowing our fridge and our garden.) (more…)
NAME THIS POST! 22 January 2007 7:03 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture, sustainability, news, health, convenience, Warren Belasco, eating, books, Marion Nestle, sundance, anthropology , 2 commentsDear readers:
I’m looking for a clever way to describe miscellaneous news of the kind I find myself wanting to write about this Monday evening. So far I seem to be big on alliteration, as I’ve thought of: Monday morsels, Monday melange, and Monday miscellany. But none of those really roll trippingly off the tongue. Monday mix? Still not so good. If you have a good idea (or really, any idea, since as you can see mine are not exactly rockin’), post a comment and I’ll change the title of this entry to give mad props to my favorite suggestion. Also I might make mystery Monday (or whatever I end up calling it) a regular feature if it turns out I generally start the week with a lot of ideas for little items.
Thanks in advance, and here are some such (hopefully amusing) little tidbits,
-Tracy
