In which subscribing to the food geek email list pays off bigtime. 16 July 2008 9:27 pm
Posted by Tracy in : events, geekery, school , 1 comment so farLook what I found in my inbox! Thanks, handy-dandy subscription to the Association for the Study of Food & Society (ASFS) listserv!
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Foodies on The Web: A Symposium on Food and New Media
(January 30 - 31, 2009
Boston University)
Many have argued that the Internet and the arrival of Web 2.0 (if there is such a thing) have created new forms of web-based community and interpersonal communications. This has extended into the world of food with the rise of popular food blogs, community-based websites such as Chowhound, Yelp and Citysearch, and other forms of information sharing and collaboration (e.g. YouTube, Wikis, TasteBook, and so forth).
The goal of this symposium is to explore how, if at all, these new technologies have changed the way people eat, cook, share recipes, decide where to have dinner, learn about nutrition, or simply think about food?
Topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to, (more…)
Monkey Monday: shiny new things edition 14 July 2008 2:45 pm
Posted by Tracy in : advice, baking, consumerism, dessert, environment, garden, kitchen gear , 1 comment so farThings to read, toys to play with, secrets I’m bursting to tell…
Firstly: Hey! Awesome! Grist has a new column all about food! It’s called Checkout Line and if you dig Tom Philpott’s Victual Reality and wish Ask Umbra would answer more questions about grocery shopping, well, you’re a lot like me, and Checkout Line might be right up your alley, too!
In other awesome news, (more…)
Recipe: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies 10 July 2008 6:44 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking, dessert, recipes, vegetarian , 1 comment so farSomeday I will make a batch of these side by side with a batch of chocolate chip cookies, and try to determine once and for all which is my favorite, but today is not that day. You see, readers, I just used up our oats on a miniature batch of Tracy granola, and because we’re moving pretty soon, I may not restock. No, seriously — it’s hard for me to believe, but we’re out of oats. We’ve been refilling the same cardboard tube that once held Quaker Oats since probably 2002, and it’s probably silly to move it to New York (though at the same time oddly tempting). One particularly precious part of the oft-reused container is this recipe, the one under the lid, which over the years has served us very well indeed. So I am recording it here and in my spiral notebook of recipes I never want to forget, just in case I manage to overcome my obsessive-compulsive packrat tendencies and actually — gasp! — throw something out. (more…)
Phew! 2 July 2008 6:21 am
Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, breakfast, cooking, news, pictures, restaurants, work , 3 commentsOn my way out the door to an opening shift, I realized again that yesterday was a doozy (doozie? no, that’s definitely not spelled right). I got to Morning Glory a little late, so I didn’t really get any of my prep chores started before opening time, and at 7:30 (yes, AM) the phone rang, and I was within arm’s reach:
“Are you guys open yet?”
— “We’re open 7:30 to 3:30 every day.”
“So can I order some food to go?”
Okay, I thought, so that’s how it’s going to be. (more…)
