Monkey Monday: plans and schemes. 24 August 2009 9:59 am
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,cooking,eating,events,fangirl,meta,news,nyc,pictures,vegan,vegetarian , 2 commentsSo I haven’t been blogging very consistently these past few months (to put it mildly), but I think I’ve come up with a bit of a solution: more picture posts! This solves both the “not blogging much” problem by also solving the “enormously behind on writing about all the food pictures I’ve taken in, well, a long time” and the “must strain to write more than a paragraph on the same subject” problems. Brilliant! Or so I hope. Anyway. Here’s a few TracyFood-worthy odds and ends from my recent readings.
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First, it’s been awhile since I’ve given props to Isa “The PPK” Chandra, but her most recent post was super-awesome for writing and cooking inspiration both. I mean, c’mon. Tempeh Helper: Just Like Mom Used To Never Make? Brilliant. Also, her chickpea-noodle soup was pretty much the best thing ever while I was rocking a gnarly cold this weekend. So yay Isa! Here is a picture of a recent meal I made from your awesome book Vegan with a Vengeance
Jerk seitan with coconut rice and garlicky collard greens.
Report: “Room to Grow” mini-conference at NYU, 4 February 2009 10 February 2009 1:31 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,environment,events,garden,geekery,local food,nyc,people,school , add a commentAs you probably guessed from the title of this post, on Wednesday 4 February 2009, I attended the “Room to Grow: Envisioning Urban Agriculture at NYU” mini-conference. It was a great way of getting up to speed on gardening efforts around campus, and inspiring pictures of city farms and gardens always do a Tracy good. Plus I got to plant kale in a nifty newspaper pot (you can bet I snagged an extra to dissect, in the hopes that I can learn the relevant origami), hang out with other NYU gardening geeks, and there was tasty food, much of it locally grown. All told, it was a fabulous evening. (more…)
In which I get all wonky about meat. 19 February 2008 10:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,eating,food safety,health,Marion Nestle,meat,Morning Glory,news,politics , add a commentSo yesterday I was too busy writing about or experiencing technical difficulties to comment on the really big food news of the day, namely largest ground beef recall in U.S. history by Hallmark/Westland, the meatpacking company whose horrific animal handling practices were exposed in a video by an undercover Humane Society activist on January 30. (Full confession: I’m not linking to the now-infamous video because I haven’t watched it yet, because I’m sort of a coward like that. On the other hand, I have seen Chris Cosentino’s photo essay about humane cow slaughter and still managed to eat beef afterwards, albeit not from a scary Cowschwitz like Hallmark/Westland).
So. Here’s the Tracy-take on the biggest ground beef recall in U.S. history: it’s a symbolic gesture, and not even a particularly good one. (more…)
Nepal picture mania, part 2 4 December 2007 6:40 am
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,eating,Kathmandu,nepal,pictures,travel , 1 comment so farSo last time I got a little distracted by the deliciousness of momos thanks to a random fast food place in Kathmandu, but today’s pictures are pretty straight-up travelogue. First, a few notes about flying in Nepal: it’s all about patience. A few days of uncooperative weather can wreak serious havoc, and we were pretty lucky in that regard — only a few hours worth of flights had been cancelled and rescheduled to October 14. Still, this was enough to overload pretty much the entire domestic terminal at Kathmandu airport: ticket counters, security, and above all the seating area where we waited our turn to check in. Behold the awesomeness of Kathmandu airport security theater:
Notable and/or quotable: stuff I read today. 19 September 2007 9:13 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,cooking,garden,health,news , add a commentI haven’t been writing well today (in part because I’m still a little sick but I shouldn’t brag or make excuses). Fortunately, I’ve been reading lots of good stuff, so I’ll refer you thataway for now:
“Out-of-house eating refers to restaurants, cantines, (office, school, hospital), snack bars, all-manner of takeaway including everything from gas station sandwich bars to supermarket catering.”
— Debra Solomon in Whose bread I eat, his song I sing on her fantastic Culiblog, most recently updated with the aforementioned very thoughtful essay about a food industry conference in Rotterdam. (more…)
