TracyFood

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

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

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…)

Ask TracyFood: food and chemotherapy? Answer: Chris knows! 16 December 2008 2:28 pm

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So a month ago, my friend Ed Parker wrote me a question:

Hello Tracy,

I have a friend whose father suffers from lack of appetite due to chemotherapy. I’m trying to get some menus together for him and wondering if you know of any websites or information reference to food and chemotherapy….

Thanks,

Eddie

While I don’t know a lot about nutrition, I probably know even less about cancer and chemotherapy. However, one of the greatest things I keep learning as I get older is that I don’t need to know everything — I just need to know how to ask people who know stuff I don’t. So, enter the guest post!

My friend Christine does know a thing or two about cancer and chemo both, so after reading Eddie’s message, I wrote some email, asked a bunch of questions, and got more answer than I can fit in one TracyFood entry. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting her wisdom in a few installments, and thinking of more questions to ask, in case it turns out we’re serious about writing a book like we keep talking about over instant messages. Here we go… (more…)

Tea for Tuesday: for health 9 December 2008 11:59 pm

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Another herbal tea this Tuesday — an herbal tea genre to be exact. You see, last Friday I came down with my traditional end-of-the-term Martian death plague (which of course was completely awesome for my eel paper–writing, as you may imagine). Aches (not just from riding the mechanical bull at Mason-Dixon for Ophelia’s not-a-birthday-party), stiffness (even after yoga), chills, dizziness, general feeling that the contents of my head might be about to melt or explode (or both), you know the drill. Stuff to whine about, and of course I did (and am still doing so, clearly). But I knew I was really sick, and not just whining for the sake of whining, when I had my first cup of echinacea tea — and it tasted good. (more…)