Foto Friday: the last time I ate tuna. 30 October 2009 3:32 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,consumerism,eating,environment,fish,food safety,food snobbery,health,Holland,Marion Nestle,Netherlands,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures,restaurants,sustainability,tuna , 1 comment so farIt has been exactly four months since I last ate tuna. I believe this may be some kind of personal record; at the very least, it is the longest I can remember going without tuna since I cared to keep track of such things. Let me explain.
I love tuna; I think it’s incredibly delicious. Unfortunately, since because of that deliciousness it’s effectively an endangered fricken species, I try not to eat it too often, on account of how I’ll be a very cranky old lady indeed if large ocean fish are extinct in the next 40 to 50 years and I’m trying to do my part to reduce demand and all that. (Because I eat it so rarely, I’m not freaking out about the whole methylmercury problem, but it is horrific and I am eternally grateful to Marion Nestle’s What to Eat for the revelation that it’s not bioaccumulative.) Anyway.
I’ve been reading a bunch about tuna farming this week — real tuna farming, not “catch baby tuna in the wild and raise them in captivity” tuna ranching, but actual farming, baby fish hatched in captivity and everything, and my personal jury is still out, to put it mildly. I wanted to come to some kind of conclusion about this latest development in time to add it to this post, but it will have to wait for another time. In the meantime, I will continue my tuna-free streak. Luckily, the last time I ate tuna was so fantastic that it’s given me an even better motivation not to crack open the canned stuff — simply put, it’s going to be very hard to find another tuna meal this good. Behold:
I’m guessing that’s a good quarter kilo of fish, at least.
Belated randomness! Now with extra funny! 28 October 2009 5:32 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,culture,fast food,food snobbery,fun,funny,health,health at every size,media,nutrition,random,video , add a commentI don’t know about the rest of you, but I find regular laughter to be an essential component of a balanced media consumption lifestyle, right along with serious hard-thinking stuff like class readings. (For sociology next week I had to choose between Barry Popkin’s The World is Fat and Hank Cardello and ghostwriter Doug Carr’s Stuffed: An Insider’s Look at Who’s (Really) Making America Fat. Yeah, that’s rough. But the Popkin book is shorter and not based on the premise that only the food industry can save us from ourselves, so it wins, even if it may yet force a ranty post or two out of me.) I digress. Here’s a few instances of food politics in pop culture that helped me keep things in perspective: (more…)
Monkey Monday: a question for my NYC-area readers 26 October 2009 12:43 pm
Posted by Tracy in : events,fun,news,nyc,random , add a commentMore standard Monkey Monday-style odds and ends tomorrow, but I was taking too long writing those bits and I wanted to get this up on the off chance of having it be news to somebody who could go.
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Hey party people! Are any of you going to the Glynwood Harvest Award winners’ panel, The New Future of Food: Finding Change in Unlikely Places tonight? It’s at 6 pm at the French Culinary Institute (462 Broadway at Grand Street, NYC) and it’s free and I would so be there if I didn’t have class from 4:55 until 6:35. Here’s what I know of the lineup, (more…)
Foto Friday: yay! 16 October 2009 11:49 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,events,fangirl,geekery,Harold McGee,kitchen gear,photos,school , add a commentHappy World Food Day, readers. Yesterday was so awesome that I’m still in a really good mood today, despite the weather outside still looking like yuck. It’s definitely turned into the season for comfort food, so today I would like to share pictures of a most successful experiment in the very best of belly-warming goodness, and celebrate proving to myself that I can still write and publish a full set of weekday posts.
But speaking of yesterday, yuck weather, and experimental cooking, (more…)
What are you up to today, Tracy? 15 October 2009 10:56 am
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,culture,fangirl,food as spectator sport,fun,geekery,good news,Harold McGee,media,school,thank you Thursday , 1 comment so farWhy thank you, hypothetical question, I’m glad you asked! Check this out:
The New York University Fales Library,
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education
and Human Development, Department of
Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health;
and Clark Wolf cordially invite you to:
