Monkey Monday: home sick edition 17 September 2007 5:47 pm
Posted by Tracy in : anthropology,books,cooking,eating,garden,health,Marion Nestle,meat,meta,Morning Glory,news,politics,tea,work , 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?
Monkey Monday: back in the States edition 9 July 2007 8:56 am
Posted by Tracy in : anthropology,cooking,eating,garden,travel,work , 2 commentsDear readers!
I had a fabulous vacation, (for pictures see here) and now it’s good to be home, even if my brain is so busy thinking about the trip that I hardly know where to begin writing even on just the TracyFood-related ideas. Good thing it’s Monkey Monday, and I can ease myself back into daily posts with a little stream-of-consciousness. (more…)
Just for comparison: one “normal” day’s food (no work, no locality restrictions) 26 April 2007 2:56 pm
Posted by Tracy in : anthropology,books,breakfast,cheese,convenience,cooking,CSA,eating,eugene,hungry planet,local food,Morning Glory,salad,school,tea,vegetarian,work , add a commentLike I mentioned on Tuesday, on work days there’s essentially no way I could stick to a local food diet, or any other except vegetarian, by virtue of the fact that Morning Glory is a meat-free zone (there’s even a little sticker next to the door that says so!) Still, I wrote down everything I ate on Monday and Tuesday for comparison to this weekend’s locavore experiment (in case maybe my food habits have changed dramatically since my original hungry Tracy experiment, and here’s what I ate on Tuesday: (more…)
Shameless nerditude: Belasco’s culinary triangle 25 April 2007 10:27 pm
Posted by Tracy in : anthropology,convenience,cooking,culinary triangle,eating,identity,Michael Pollan,responsibility,school,Sidney Mintz,vegetarian,Warren Belasco , add a commentSo. Warren James Belasco is a historian and professor of American studies at the University of Maryland who writes about food — and very well, I might add. I read his 2006 book, Meals to Come: a History of the Future of Food over winter break, and today I finished his 1989 book, Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture took on the Food Industry, because it was due back at the UO library today and I wanted to return it on time rather than provoke the wrath of our housemate The History Librarian. Belasco is the co-editor of Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies, a collection of excellent academic papers about food and its marketing which was also due today. (Eventually I would like to review all these books on TracyFood, because I am a colossal geek.) In my Fall 2006 food and culture anthropology class (ANTH 365 at the University of Oregon), we used Belasco’s “culinary triangle” model of food selection to describe and discuss the way individuals approach the question of what to eat, and I find myself wanting to refer to Belasco’s terminology on TracyFood a lot, so I’m going to define it here for future reference. (more…)
Monkey Monday: “eat local” weekend food logs 23 April 2007 8:22 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen,anthropology,breakfast,cheese,convenience,cooking,CSA,dessert,eating,environment,eugene,hungry planet,local food,milk,monkeys,responsibility,school,seasonality,sustainability,tea,work , 2 commentsImportant finding number one: Quitting caffeine cold turkey is not for the faint of heart like me. I had a raging headache by around 2 PM Saturday and gave in and had some freaking tea already around 8 PM, after which sources report I was much less hellish to be around (and I will concede that it was much more pleasant to be me, oh yes). But! Aside from that tea and some salt and some cumin, everything else I ate this weekend was grown or manufactured in Oregon, with the exception of some russet potatoes from Washington, because I miscalculated the amount of spuds it would take to get me through the weekend. The single lamest part of the experiment (besides the whole wanting to kill everything for lack of caffeine) was that I got totally insanely possessive about my food, because there were so few things in the house that fit my (admittedly totally arbitrary) dietary parameters. The caffeine-withdrawal-induced crankiness almost certainly didn’t help with my food possessiveness, to put it mildly. Anyway. On to what I ate! (more…)
