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Monkey Monday: I made this. 3 May 2010 11:43 pm

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I surprised myself today by producing not one but two diagrams for my final paper on food policy for urban and metropolitan regions. One of them even helped me organize a whole host of food policy issues according to a definition of sustainability based on health, the environment, and economics, like so:

Sustainable urban-metropolitan food policy, sort of.

The big breakthrough was the realization that sustainability and its environmental, economic, and health aspects are not food policy goals so much as they are common unifying themes shared across many food system goals and the policies and programs designed to pursue them, if that makes any sense. Anyway, that diagram helped me do a pretty decent presentation in class this afternoon, despite my weak chalkboard-fu and the fact that I hadn’t finished the paper yet. The first six pages are really solid, and I’m actually look forward to doing more on that project, even as I put it on hold to do the final for my food processing and industrialization class.

I’ll be fine if I just breathe.

Also, I had a fantastic sea scallop, fava bean, and rhubarb appetizer at Braeburn tonight. Nom.

Bed now! And way less coffee, iced or otherwise, for me tomorrow. G’night!

http://www.facebook.com/people/Francis-Carr/1075583080 Francis Carr

Wait, huh? — “scallop, fava bean, and rhubarb” ??

Please do tell us more! Living in Boston, I happen to have those things practically lying around the living room…
http://www.tracyfood.com TracyFood

Thanks Mom!

Hi Francis! The appetizer in question involved two beautiful scallops, perfectly seared on one side and thus barely cooked to raw throughout, on a bed of rhubarb compote with fava beans in it. I regret that I cannot do it more justice than that (but now I totally want to go back for another and score pictures, for proper documentation, doncha know.)