One last big Michael Pollan quotation 22 June 2007 6:51 pm
Posted by Tracy in : Michael Pollan, agriculture, books, environment, garden, work , add a commentTracy is on vacation. You can read all about it at Van Boothe Tandem Adventures. Regularly-scheduled non-vacation TracyFood posts will be back on Monday, July 9. Meanwhile….
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From “The Harvest”
I ended yesterday’s post by quoting a stirring bit of rhetoric about getting down to the work of the land, and that is exactly what Pollan describes at the beginning of chapter 8 of Second Nature, the beginning of the Fall section: the overwhelming, bittersweet work of gathering late summer and fall garden abundance. (more…)
Foto Friday: Garlic whistles 25 May 2007 10:32 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture, cooking, eating, garden, pictures, seasonality , 1 comment so farTa-dah!
Also called garlic scapes or garlic flowers — I saw them being sold under that last name at the Portland Farmers Market on Wednesday, but didn’t have the presence of mind to take a picture to prove it — these “whistles” are indeed garlic’s attempt to bloom and go to seed. (more…)
Monkey Monday: I really should get to bed edition 21 May 2007 1:38 am
Posted by Tracy in : CSA, agriculture, books, convenience, cooking, eating, garden, monkeys, politics, reviews, school , add a commentBut I just wanted to say: I am happy to report that I have found another good book about local food, and it is Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (written with her husband, Steven Hopp, and daughters Camille and Lily — they all appear on the back cover author picture, but Lily was too young for a book contract and so couldn’t get her name on the front cover, just very cute hands full of heirloom lima beans). I was a little worried during the early chapters, especially when they mentioned the very disappointing Coming Home to Eat by Gary Paul Nabham but I skipped ahead a little and found plenty to look forward to, so I kept reading — and was well-rewarded. I had hoped to finish Marion Nestle’s Safe Food in time to make it the subject of the book report due for Urban Farm on Thursday, but I think Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is my new winner. Of course, some (probably extended) version of whatever I turn in will make it onto TracyFood. (more…)
Post-midterm short post! 8 May 2007 11:33 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture, books, cooking, school , add a commentReaders who managed to make it all the way through yesterday’s Monkey Monday ramblings might be glad to hear that the ant situation is more or less under control in the kitchen, and also that tonight’s dinner was a very successful implementation of my brilliant plan to use the leftover curried apple-carrot soup as sauce for fried tofu and rice. Yum. (more…)
Hungry Tracy redux: eating local 20 April 2007 9:27 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture, cooking, eating, environment, eugene, garden, hungry planet, identity, local food, school, seasonality, tea , 1 comment so farThink of me when you’re eating whatever you want this weekend; I’ll be overthinking all my meals even more than usual. For class! You see, I’m supposed to consume only food and drinks that have been “grown or processed locally.” (more…)
