Monkey Monday: more looking forward 9 November 2009 8:06 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,eating,events,fangirl,friends,geekery,monkeys,nyc,politics,random,restaurants,school , 3 commentsFirst and foremost, happy birthday Liz! May you look forward to many excellent things as you join the rest of us in our fourth decade (sounds intimidating, doesn’t it? We’re olllllllllllld. And it’s awesome, I promise.)
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Next, I was right last Tuesday about my having near-future awesomeness to look forward to — Krishnendu’s lecture was fantastic, full of food for thought and Indian restaurant recommendations. Also it inspired me to make dal, because dude. It had been way too long.
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This week is also looking good on the looking-forward front, starting with the Food Systems Network NYC’s monthly open meeting tomorrow. (more…)
Quick hit: books and writing and fangirling, oh my! 4 November 2009 1:16 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,fangirl,geekery,politics,school,writing , add a commentWell, sanity of the stayed-up-till-3:30-AM-writing sort prevailed, and so today I am not spending six hours going back and forth to New Haven for a two-hour presentation, even one on a topic that interests me so very very much. In the meantime (for instance during that aforementioned staying up until 3:30 AM, all hopped up on coffee and pumpkin cheesecake, nom nom nom), I have been writing the heck out of my policy midterm report about emergency food, in part as described in Janet Poppendieck’s completely freaking brilliant Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement. I thought it was really good before I did a little fieldwork volunteering with Broadway Community Inc./Community Impact, now it gives me goosebumps and (more…)
Looking not too far forward… 3 November 2009 9:18 am
Posted by Tracy in : books,environment,events,geekery,news,nyc,politics,school , add a commentIf I can get my policy midterm done in time, I’m seriously thinking about going out to New Haven tomorrow for the next event in the Rudd Center Seminar Series:
“Changing the Food Environment by Working with Food Stores,”
by Joel Gittelsohn of the Center for Human Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (also the Healthy Stores Project).
Wednesday November 4, 2009
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
309 Edwards Street, Conference Room
New Haven, Connecticut
I mean, that is more or less exactly what I want to write about for my food sociology final…. it even made the New York Times this weekend, which made me super-happy since I had to propose my paper topic in class yesterday. Phew!
Then on Thursday evening (more…)
Monkey Monday: winter squash goodness and more. 2 November 2009 9:47 am
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,eating,fangirl,Harold McGee,health at every size,kitchen mishaps,monkeys,nyc,reading,seasonality,winter squash , 2 commentsFun fact! In some dialects of English (but not mine), the word “pumpkin” is used to refer to all winter squash, not just the orange hard-skinned kinds used to make pies and jack-o-lanterns (and other tasty things, some of which I will be describing later in this post). In my experience, this is mostly a Southern Hemisphere/British usage, but I welcome a more substantial analysis than my touchy-feely “I think this is how it works.” Meanwhile, in this Northern Hemisphere, between Halloween and the end of Daylight Savings Time it’s officially winter in my brain, and for the past week or so I have been marking the changing season by eating lots of winter squash, including pumpkin. Yum.
For starters, (more…)
