Monkey Monday: shiny new things edition 14 July 2008 2:45 pm
Posted by Tracy in : garden, consumerism, kitchen gear, baking, environment, advice, dessert , 1 comment so farThings to read, toys to play with, secrets I’m bursting to tell…
Firstly: Hey! Awesome! Grist has a new column all about food! It’s called Checkout Line and if you dig Tom Philpott’s Victual Reality and wish Ask Umbra would answer more questions about grocery shopping, well, you’re a lot like me, and Checkout Line might be right up your alley, too!
In other awesome news, (more…)
Four ways of looking at Trader Joe’s 5 February 2008 10:34 am
Posted by Tracy in : politics, fangirl, environment, sustainability, responsibility, convenience, friends , add a commentI’ve mentioned repeatedly that I’ve been a month or so behind on all kinds of stuff since my trip to Nepal, which is why it was January before I caught up to the fact that it was open season on Trader Joe’s in early December, and I’ve been concocting a reply ever since. Today I’ll finally be discussing the two blog posts that got my attention, and sharing a few other pieces from even more way back in the day, just to add to the fun. (more…)
One last big Michael Pollan quotation 22 June 2007 6:51 pm
Posted by Tracy in : work, garden, environment, agriculture, Michael Pollan, books , 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…)
On “The Idea of a Garden” by Michael Pollan 21 June 2007 6:54 pm
Posted by Tracy in : garden, reviews, environment, Michael Pollan, books , 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…. (more…)
Book review: “Coming Home To Eat” by Gary Paul Nabham 17 May 2007 11:54 pm
Posted by Tracy in : reviews, politics, local food, advice, environment, eating, books, sustainability, cooking , add a commentLet me get this out of the way first: I do not recommend this book. It was due back at my friendly local public library last Thursday, and before that I had it at home for two months, during which I only managed to read the first 110 pages, all of which felt vaguely like a punishment. If you’re looking for a good read about the local food movement, check out Brian Halweil’s Eat Here: Reclaiming homegrown pleasures in a global supermarket, which has no right to be a much better book, but nonetheless is. (more…)
