Friday funnies: Stuff White People Like 29 February 2008 3:10 pm
Posted by Tracy in : kitchen gear, breakfast, vegetarianism, consumerism, Morning Glory, vegan, anthropology, vegetarian, identity, restaurants , 2 commentsHappy Leap Day! Laughter is good Tracy food, and the blog Stuff White People Like makes me laugh. Have you seen it? It’s completely brilliant, as long as you don’t read the comments (don’t say I didn’t warn you). Here are a few samples I picked for their relevance to TracyFood:
#36 Breakfast Places (I swear I’m printing this one out for Morning Glory).
#54 Kitchen Gadgets
That last one, of course, hits especially close to home. (more…)
Odds and ends: rice, snobbery, and procrastination. 6 February 2008 11:57 am
Posted by Tracy in : pictures, politics, food snobbery, school, soup, anthropology, friends, recipes, cooking , add a commentIntrigued by a comment from Liz on my curried pea soup recipe, I made a version with 2 cups of brown rice instead of potatoes last Saturday. Results: as Liz also mentioned in her comment, I had to cook it for a lot longer to get the rice done (for once the peas weren’t the slow part of the cooking process) and then it turned my blending equipment was no match for the task of getting the soup all nice and smooth. Dangit! The soup is still tasty, don’t get me wrong, but as far as I’m concerned the texture leaves something to be desired. Something smooth and creamy, like blended potatoes. Gah. I’m such a snob sometimes.
But speaking of rice, if you haven’t seen Free Rice already, it’s a fun game for a good cause, and an excellent procrastination tool (sort of like updating a food blog when I’m supposed to be finishing today’s assigned readings for my anthropology class, but I digress.) (more…)
Random brain snacks, from my browser tabs to yours. 15 January 2008 9:40 am
Posted by Tracy in : pictures, reviews, geekery, work, school, anthropology, cheese, cooking , 3 commentsLet’s see if I can prevent yet another Firefox crash! Here’s a little smorgasbord of delicious internet randomness, ranging from book reviews to music videos, all food-related (no, really).
First, here’s a review of Kitchen Literacy by Ann Vilesis, which I returned, unfinished, to the library this week because somebody else had it on hold. I never really got into this book, but I am way into EL’s use of the term “retrovore”, oh yes.
Next, an old Slate piece about chefs in film, complete with little clips of movies I’ve either seen or feel vaguely obligated to see now, if only to take notes on depictions of gender in films about food and cooking. (Um, can you tell I’m supposed to be writing a project proposal for my anthropology class? Eeek.)
Here’s a good rant about what it means to be a professional cook — both good and the bad bits. (more…)
Monkey Monday: yes I said yes I will Yes. 7 January 2008 12:48 pm
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, fangirl, America's Test Kitchen, garden, school, seasonality, anthropology , 2 commentsHappy 2008, everybody! I hope you are all enjoying the International Year of the Potato so far — I know I am, and not just because I finally finished Larry Zuckerman’s The Potato: How the humble spud saved the Western world. Oh no, I have many reasons. For instance, check out what the Gmail just dragged in!
from: The Editors of Cook's Illustrated to: Tracy van Cort date: Jan 7, 2008 11:33 AM subject: Become a Shopper for America's Test Kitchen
Monkey Monday: home sick edition 17 September 2007 5:47 pm
Posted by Tracy in : work, Morning Glory, politics, garden, tea, meat, health, news, eating, anthropology, books, Marion Nestle, meta, cooking , add a commentI have a cold, so I am staying home and rocking the hot fluids. Later in the week this little bout of upper respiratory yuckiness will probably translate into a post about miso soup (I hesitate to call my approach to miso soup a recipe), but for now all I’m good for is sitting on the couch with the cats, catching up on my Google Reader. I had miso soup and echinacea tea for breakfast, with Yorkshire Gold black tea for dessert. For lunch I had no-knead bread, and I’m thinking of making tomato soup with extra garlic for dinner, because I believe in feeding a cold, dangit. My other project for the day is updating my reading list, in particular to make note of my shiny new used copy of Stand Facing the Stove which Powells had just for me for $5 on this weekend’s trip to Portland, yay! My excitement might even be enough to get me to finally finish writing a review of this fantastic history-biography.
But Tracy, don’t you usually work on Mondays?
