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Twitter Tuesday: #kitchenpetpeeves 31 January 2012 9:20 am

Posted by Tracy in : advice,cooking,food snobbery,food storage,kitchen gear,kitchen mishaps,Twitter Tuesday , add a comment

So I just found out about the Twitter hashtag #kitchenpetpeeves and as @michaelnatkin (Michael Natkin of Herbivoracious.com) says:

If you are considering restaurant work, read this hashtag #kitchenpetpeeves – a hell of a lot of education in every 140 chars

I tell you, he only speaks the truth. After only a bit of scrolling, I found pretty much everything I might have tweeted myself (and they’re not all about terrible restaurant customers, either!) Here are some of my favorites (bonus: writing this post has distracted me from reading the whole thread and stopped me from retweeting all but a few of these):

Joshua Galliano @cookingkid
almost empty containers not consolidated into smaller ones RT @ad_it_up #kitchenpetpeeves empty containers in the walkin

This one drives me nuts even at home, even when I’m the one guilty of not bothering to free up fridge space! (more…)

Monkey Monday: Halloween and more! 31 October 2011 6:17 pm

Posted by Tracy in : advice,cooking,eating,events,food snobbery,friends,fun,meta,monkeys,photos,pictures,random , add a comment

Hey party people, happy Halloween! Check out this fantastic foodie Danse Macabre image from comics badass Dylan Meconis:

Danse Macabre: The Foodie.
Pretty sweet, right?

I’ll return to the Danse Macabre later in this post, after a few Monkey Monday odds and ends: a recent post brought up to speed, a friend’s question answered, and then a (death-defying?) challenge… (more…)

Ask TracyFood: how about those sprouts? 3 March 2009 11:23 pm

Posted by Tracy in : advice,cooking,friends,pictures,recipes,vegetarian , 1 comment so far

So last week Monday I made a delicious dinner that started like so:

Roasted brussels sprouts.

and Allison saw the picture on Flickr and wrote:

How did you make these? I need me some green vegis like my stunted artichokes need some damn sun.

Woo, lady — thanks for asking! (more…)

CancerFood, part 3: more wisdoms from Christine 15 January 2009 11:22 am

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This is the third post in a series which started with Ask TracyFood: food and chemotherapy? Answer: Chris knows! and continued with CancerFood, part 2: you need Christine’s wisdoms bad. Today Today Chris has more specific food suggestions for surviving chemotherapy — both what to eat and how to eat it — as well as another round of general advice on living well when your body’s trying to kill you. (more…)

CancerFood, part 2: you need Christine’s wisdoms bad. 7 January 2009 7:51 am

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So last month my stupendously colossal badass friend Christine helped me write the first of a series of posts about food and chemotherapy. We started out with the basics: what her experience of chemo has been like, taking a holistic view of its mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual effects. Today we’ve got some more food-specific discussion to share, with a few chimings-in by Christine’s favorite Englishman, Kevin. Here goes…. (more…)