CancerFood, part 2: you need Christine’s wisdoms bad. 7 January 2009 7:51 am
Posted by Tracy in : advice,eating,friends,guest post,health,interviews,nutrition , add a commentSo 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
Posted by Tracy in : advice,eating,friends,guest post,health,interviews,nutrition , 2 commentsSo 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
Posted by Tracy in : advice,consumerism,health,reviews,tea , 4 commentsAnother 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…)
Ask TracyFood: questions from my mom! 7 October 2008 8:01 pm
Posted by Tracy in : advice,consumerism,kitchen gear,nyc,random,vocabulary , 1 comment so farToday’s Ask TracyFood comes from none other than my mom, who has sent me a number of questions and recommendations by email and paper mail in the past week. Hi Mom! You have questions; I’m online at the NYU library with answers. First up:
What does the phrase ” Sweat the onions” mean in a recipe?
Monkey Monday: so much mystery meat! 29 September 2008 8:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : advice,consumerism,food safety,food snobbery,health,ingredients,Marion Nestle,meat,monkeys,mystery meat,news,politics , add a commentSeriously, kids, was it International “Make Tracy Happy to Avoid Mystery Meat” Week and nobody told me? I just kept finding more and more news stories and blog posts to that effect. Also, on a metaphorical level, the TracyFood comment spam just kept pouring in — I broke 16,000 17,000 deleted comments over the weekend (number edited on Sunday morning after I started the post on Friday night). Woo? But seriously, all the scary meat news you can read:
22 September: Sucks to be a factory-farmed pig.
Last Monday, U.S. Food Policy alerted me to a news report about pig abuse at factory farms. The official Associated Press news piece is here, along with a video which I cannot bring myself to watch. You can click through to the full piece without being forced to watch the video, but (more…)
