No post today, just a picture, and birthday wishes to Piett. 17 January 2008 4:39 pm
Posted by Tracy in : nepal, pictures, meta , add a commentLike it says in the caption on Flickr, this one’s for my brother Piett, on his 25th birthday. Gefeliciteerd, monkey mine.
(Oh, and we saw this random bit of chalk graffiti in Nepal, in the town of Salleri, more or less exactly two months ago, give or take some time change. At the time, I had no plans to turn it into a magical internet greeting card, but when it turned up in today’s travel photo wrangling, I knew what I had to do.)
Curried Pea Soup in pictures. 16 January 2008 8:12 am
Posted by Tracy in : soup, vegan, pictures, sundance, recipes, eating, vegetarian, cooking , add a commentHere’s a little photo series that was my original plan for last Friday’s post before world news ate my brain. It would’ve followed right after the relevant recipe post and everything, but here it finally is.
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Split pea soup is fun and easy, so I decided it would be a good choice for my first ever shift training another cook at Sundance. (more…)
Random brain snacks, from my browser tabs to yours. 15 January 2008 9:40 am
Posted by Tracy in : pictures, reviews, geekery, work, school, anthropology, cheese, cooking , 3 commentsLet’s see if I can prevent yet another Firefox crash! Here’s a little smorgasbord of delicious internet randomness, ranging from book reviews to music videos, all food-related (no, really).
First, here’s a review of Kitchen Literacy by Ann Vilesis, which I returned, unfinished, to the library this week because somebody else had it on hold. I never really got into this book, but I am way into EL’s use of the term “retrovore”, oh yes.
Next, an old Slate piece about chefs in film, complete with little clips of movies I’ve either seen or feel vaguely obligated to see now, if only to take notes on depictions of gender in films about food and cooking. (Um, can you tell I’m supposed to be writing a project proposal for my anthropology class? Eeek.)
Here’s a good rant about what it means to be a professional cook — both good and the bad bits. (more…)
Monkey Monday: Nepali breakfast edition 14 January 2008 12:49 pm
Posted by Tracy in : nepal, tea, breakfast, pictures, vegetarian, cooking , 3 commentsQuick summary: Over the weekend, news articles about the death of Sir Edmund Hillary made me all Nepal-nostalgic (Nepalgic?), with delicious (and photogenic) results. Read on for the not-so-quick version. (more…)
Foto Friday: Edmund Hillary appreciation day. 11 January 2008 9:40 pm
Posted by Tracy in : nepal, pictures, news , 1 comment so farI had to hunt through my Nepal photos a little, but I was happy to find a few from the school “Sir Ed” founded in Khumjung, a village in the Solukhumbu not far from Namche Bazaar:
