Monkey Monday: welcome to hot mess week. 20 April 2009 8:29 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,eating,hot mess,meta,news,nutrition,politics,school , 1 comment so farSo last Thursday I mentioned cooking up a hot mess, and considered a series of posts (with pictures) about meals I’ve cooked that tasted way better than they looked. This week, as I attempt to wrangle together my big project for Research Methods, hot messes sound like a fun way to take what I’m sure will be much-needed breaks. BUT. Before I get to all that lighthearted fun, I need to write something about the food politics of a big hot mess in last week’s news.
All the Pepto-Bismol (or store-brand/generic equivalents thereof) on Earth would not be enough to get me through reading the CIA “interrogation technique” memos released by the Obama administration, but here’s a link to the ACLU page with the full documents just in case I develop some seriously hardcore intestinal fortitude. However, I did manage to read excerpts from the memos in in Friday’s New York Times, and that’s how I spotted a bit of food politics so grim I had to reread it repeatedly before circling it in black marker to etch it in my brain as something to write about. So here I go, (more…)
