Ridiculously belated Foto Friday: adventures in flying fancy 22 January 2010 11:12 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,eating,family,food snobbery,fun,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures,restaurants,silly,tea,travel , 2 commentsToday’s post is dedicated to Ansley, not just for reminding me to write it, but also because she is going to Cancún for a long weekend tomorrow and I’m maybe just a little jealous. Anyway, have an awesome trip, lady, and do not even try to match the ridiculously huge pile of stuff I scored in the process of flying to Amsterdam at the beginning of the month:
Schwag from Virgin Upper Class
On top of the shoe bag, which I totally did use, you can see such diverse items as socks, a toothbrush, an Upper Class luggage tag, some very cute envelopes, and a copy of The Economist (which I finally finished reading yesterday because I am a giant slacker and also because I have been reading overtime to keep the pile of New Yorkers smaller than I am. Specifically TracyFood-related items (I guess the toothbrush sort of counts, too) include (more…)
A few more odds and ends. 21 January 2010 11:50 pm
Posted by Tracy in : friends,funny,health,health at every size,news,random,reading , 1 comment so farI’m not even going to try to lead smoothly from story to story here, but I’ll try for catchy headlines so you can pick and choose what paragraphs look interesting, short attention span theater-style. Here we go!
Health likes big butts, and it cannot lie
Big thanks to the fabulous Chiara for posting this excellent news item to Twitter back while I was in the land of needing all the good news I could get. “Science could look to deliberately increase hip fat” for health, according to the British researchers cited in this article. Needless to say, I’m looking forward to reading the original paper.
A TracyFood picture is podcast-famous!
So two weeks ago I got a Flickr comment on the picture Breakfast, annotated, which you may know from theAbout Tracy page on this here blog. Turns out my breakfast now plays a supporting role in Episode 2 of The Flickerman web radio serial, which you really must hear to believe. (more…)
Yet another (very) belated Monkey Monday post 20 January 2010 3:47 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,eating,fangirl,food snobbery,geekery,Marion Nestle,media,monkeys,news,nyc,politics,random,reading,school,writing , 1 comment so farAll right, it’s my first day of spring term, so I’d better close some browser tabs and make ready to go back to school. I think I’m getting into the right headspace: for instance, when I saw the Salon Food feature about whether Indian food will finally get trendy this year, my first thought was, “I wonder if (NYU food studies professor) Krishnendu Ray has seen this.” Only then of course it turned out that he was the very expert interviewed for the article. Go figure?
Likewise, I thought of Marion Nestle when I spotted the above-the fold front-page story about the FDA taking another look at bisphenol-A (BPA) in Saturday’s New York Times. Of course, she’s all over this story and the BPA issue in general. Personally, I’m just relieved to see coverage of this story beyond “here’s what you, personally, should do if you only care about the health of you and your family, forget the rest of the world.” (more…)
Foto Friday: Linguine Alfredo recipe, for Piett. 15 January 2010 11:08 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cheese,convenience,cooking,eating,eugene,family,Holland,hot mess,Netherlands,pasta,photos,pictures,random,recipes,restaurants,vegetarian,work , add a commentSo I’m back from Holland and recovering from the trip, but still pretty freaking tired and nowhere near done uploading and organizing all the pictures I took. Today’s photo post was going to be all about flying fancy-style, but like I said, I haven’t quite got those pictures processed. Instead, I’m going to blog my dinner, which happens to relate back to my trip in more than just the “so tired, can’t get stuff organized” way. You see, on Tuesday night my brother Piett and I made a huge pasta dinner for my parents, my Oma, my aunt Ingrid, uncle Dako, their daughters Stéphanie and Claudia, and Stéphanie’s boyfriend Raymond (to be perfectly fair, Claud made her own food but I was still happy to have something that almost everyone could agree to eat). We cooked 1 1/2 kilos of spaghetti and three different sauces for people to mix and match to their own tastes: tomato-meat, tomato-vegetable sauce, and creamy pesto. Piett was an awesome sous-chef, and somewhere in the chatting over cooking we got to the topic of Alfredo sauce. My basic point was that it’s super-easy, and Piett said he’d like me to show him how to make it some time. While this post is not the video podcast recipe he suggested, it’s a step in that direction.
Linguine Alfredo: it’s what was for my dinner tonight.
Off for a (sad) week… 6 January 2010 8:33 pm
Posted by Tracy in : eating,events,family,hot mess,random,travel , 5 commentsToday’s post is going to be even more self-indulgent than usual, readers, so please accept my apologies for that in advance. You see, my ridiculous bedhead and I are sad:
Sad.
because my beloved grandfather, my Opa, died this morning after a long battle with a whole host of ailments that I’m going to sum up as “old age” even though nobody officially uses that as a cause of death anymore. I raved about it last night on a blog I hadn’t updated in literally over a year but tonight my emotions are quieter, more relieved/resigned. We all knew this was coming, if not when, and it happened in pretty much the best possible way (the kind that makes me envy the Dutch healthcare system something fierce) but that doesn’t make it not sad, it just makes it not a complete horrific disaster, which isn’t nothing, but it’s cold comfort nonetheless. Anyway, I’m flying out to Holland very soon, and writing this in part to deal with having my mind blown by the Virgin Atlantic Club at Newark Airport (picture of my brother sharing similar shock and awe after the cut). Let’s just say that I’m now more certain than ever that my next credit card will rock some frequent flyer miles, oh yes.
Of course, I must tell you about the food here. (more…)
