Monkey Monday: boring sleepy edition 30 April 2007 10:51 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,monkeys,work , add a commentI wanted to write something clever about all the books I returned to various libraries over the past month, and better still about how I’d even managed to finish quite a few of them. But I worked all weekend, and I’m tired. So it’s a good thing I mostly managed to update my Not Just Cookbooks reading lists on Friday, before I turned into the Amazing Zombie Line Cook. (more…)
Foto Friday: the TracyFood week in review 27 April 2007 11:40 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking,garden,pictures,school,seasonality , add a commentRead on to discover why this post is going up at the last minute; I promise it’s a very good reason. Also, there’s pictures of some other stuff I did before today as well. For instance, I baked not one but two beautiful loaves of whole wheat no-knead bread, first on Tuesday: (more…)
Just for comparison: one “normal” day’s food (no work, no locality restrictions) 26 April 2007 2:56 pm
Posted by Tracy in : anthropology,books,breakfast,cheese,convenience,cooking,CSA,eating,eugene,hungry planet,local food,Morning Glory,salad,school,tea,vegetarian,work , add a commentLike I mentioned on Tuesday, on work days there’s essentially no way I could stick to a local food diet, or any other except vegetarian, by virtue of the fact that Morning Glory is a meat-free zone (there’s even a little sticker next to the door that says so!) Still, I wrote down everything I ate on Monday and Tuesday for comparison to this weekend’s locavore experiment (in case maybe my food habits have changed dramatically since my original hungry Tracy experiment, and here’s what I ate on Tuesday: (more…)
Shameless nerditude: Belasco’s culinary triangle 25 April 2007 10:27 pm
Posted by Tracy in : anthropology,convenience,cooking,culinary triangle,eating,identity,Michael Pollan,responsibility,school,Sidney Mintz,vegetarian,Warren Belasco , add a commentSo. Warren James Belasco is a historian and professor of American studies at the University of Maryland who writes about food — and very well, I might add. I read his 2006 book, Meals to Come: a History of the Future of Food over winter break, and today I finished his 1989 book, Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture took on the Food Industry, because it was due back at the UO library today and I wanted to return it on time rather than provoke the wrath of our housemate The History Librarian. Belasco is the co-editor of Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies, a collection of excellent academic papers about food and its marketing which was also due today. (Eventually I would like to review all these books on TracyFood, because I am a colossal geek.) In my Fall 2006 food and culture anthropology class (ANTH 365 at the University of Oregon), we used Belasco’s “culinary triangle” model of food selection to describe and discuss the way individuals approach the question of what to eat, and I find myself wanting to refer to Belasco’s terminology on TracyFood a lot, so I’m going to define it here for future reference. (more…)
Hungry Tracy eats local: observations, conclusions, and more. 24 April 2007 1:08 pm
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,cooking,eating,garden,hungry planet,local food,Morning Glory,seasonality,tea,work , 1 comment so farQuick link: If you were amused by the meal names I sort of made up for my local food logs — “second dinner” and the like — you might want to read this article about the evolution of meal names and times from an old History Magazine. Fun for geeks, fun for geeks… and thanks to Peter for pointing it out. And now, back to my homework!
More than a day after the end of my eating local experiment, I’m still very much in “Hungry Tracy writes down everything she eats” mode: So far today I have eaten cottage cheese pancakes made with Nancy’s cottage cheese and Umpqua sour cream and Raynblest Farm happy chicken eggs and flour and baking powder and suchforth of unknown origin, fried in Umpqua butter and served with Apple Hill Farm applesauce and Danish Orchards blackberry jam. Also I had a little more than a cup of Wandering Goat organic and fair trade french roast coffee with Umpqua half and half and sugar of unknown origin. But Peter and I did the big dumb breakfast because James was visiting and it’s fun to show off for guests. On a more ordinary day we might have just had Tracy granola with Nancy’s yogurt or homemade no-knead bread with cheese. (more…)
