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Food writing snarktacular! (For Christine) 30 October 2008 8:18 am

Posted by Tracy in : eugene, food safety, food snobbery, friends, oregon, school, work , 3 comments

I sent this article to my Sugar Momma and her favorite Englishman in Davis, and she said nice things about it, like “Can I forward it to my family?” Flattery rules, and so I am posting this to show off (and so Christine has the option of sending a link instead of all my text).

Possible titles for this piece, depending on who I’m selling it to (in which case there’d be appropriate tweaks, blah blah), include: “Ex-Sundance Employee Tells All!” and “Confessions of a Cheesemonger.” (more…)

Another deadline, another late-night surprise post. 29 October 2008 10:44 pm

Posted by Tracy in : friends, news, school, silly , 2 comments

Greetings from the eighth floor reading room at Bobst Library, NYU, home of a spectacular view of the Empire State Building (and me without my camera to prove it). I just emailed in my writing assignment for the week: a mushy memoir piece about my last trip to the Eugene Saturday Market. At 1400 words, it’s too long (the assignment was for 750 to 1000) but after two attempts that barely broke 500, that’s a nice change. I can always cut it down, and maybe the finished product will make a nice TracyFood post someday. In the meantime, please tune in tomorrow for another not-so-little something I finished for class two weeks ago, not with mushiness, but with snark.

In other news:

This year’s Halloween tricks and treats may include our apartment’s finally getting hooked up to the Internet. Turns out TimeWarner thinks our building number is “building number - building number + 2″ and they have no way of looking that up. Peter had to ask to see a neighbor’s cable bill. I am not even making this up.

That paper I was complaining about last week? About my attempts to locate Nepali food in NYC? Was totally well-received, to my everlasting relief. Now I can move on to freaking out about the research paper!

Finally, Penny’s moving in on Sunday for reals! PARTY!

Okay, down to 20 minutes of laptop battery life — I’m really going home now.

Monkey Monday: another night at the library. 20 October 2008 10:07 pm

Posted by Tracy in : New York, consumerism, eating, geekery, nepal, pictures, restaurants, school, seasonality , add a comment

I’m about to go back to our Internet-less home and make myself a nice pot of tea in the hopes that it will inspire me to write at least another page of the paper due Wednesday, but first I wanted to note:

- Yay for fall! We’ve been having these beautiful crisp, clear days, and they actually confused me for a little while, because I’d been in Oregon too long and had almost forgotten that weather can be both clear and cold. As I commented to the fabulous Chiara this morning, “[T]his winter, at least, will not be 100% dark and grey! Freezing cold, maybe, but somehow I feel it less when I get more sun. Take that, seasonal affective tendencies! Woo!”

- Yay for finding Nepalese food in New York! Last week (more…)

Yep, still mostly offline. 16 October 2008 6:40 pm

Posted by Tracy in : New York, geekery, kitchen gadgets, news, restaurants , add a comment

So in case it wasn’t obvious from the lack of posts at the end of last week, we still don’t have internet at home. Last Wednesday the cable guy came not to the Moon Monkey Bar, Grille, and Cocktail Lounge, but rather to the building next door, because Time Warner doesn’t know our address exists. Eventually he figured out the “wrong building” problme and came over, but then he couldn’t get instructions from headquarters about how to install our cable, since they didn’t believe in our building’s existence. So the next step is to wait until they send someone out to figure out how to install cable in our building, no joke.

But! TracyFood adventures continue offline despite my having missed the chance to post a recipe on World Egg Day last Friday. For instance I’m at the NYU library right now, after my very first ever Experimental Cuisine Collective meeting, with Alex and Aki from Ideas in Food, who have reminded me that I desperately want a pressure cooker (despite the fact that there’s no room in our apartment for our current kitchen shit, let alone new stuff). More examples of my recent TracyFood adventures include: (more…)

Ask TracyFood: questions from my mom! 7 October 2008 8:01 pm

Posted by Tracy in : New York, advice, consumerism, kitchen gear, random, vocabulary , 1 comment so far

Today’s Ask TracyFood comes from none other than my mom, who has sent me a number of questions and recommendations by email and paper mail in the past week. Hi Mom! You have questions; I’m online at the NYU library with answers. First up: