Thank you Thursday: Keith Knight 17 November 2011 8:45 am
Posted by Tracy in : comics,eating,environment,fangirl,fish,food snobbery,pictures,thank you Thursday , add a commentSo last month, Keith Knight (about whom I have fangirled out before on this very blog) reminded me why I don’t eat shark anymore:
I’ve actually been meaning to write something about this for more than a year, ever since (warning: link has some very sad before-and-after pictures of a shark killed for food) a post I saw via The Atlantic‘s now-defunct food blog inspired me to draft a response saying “It’s a no-brainer, really: (more…)
Foto Friday: Coming back to Kathmandu, November 2007 4 November 2011 9:40 am
Posted by Tracy in : environment,Kathmandu,nepal,photos,pictures,random,travel , add a commentI wanted to do this as a Wordless Wednesday, but I just couldn’t bring myself to throw down a bunch of Nepal pictures out of nowhere when my last real travelogue-y post about that trip was more than three years ago, which in turn was more than a year after the trip, which was (holy cats, more than four years ago). Anyway, the short summary of that trip, which does not do it justice but might provide much-needed context, is that October and early November 2007 I joined my parents, my brother Piett, my aunt Beth, my cousin Mike, and his (step?) sister Jessie on a two-and-a-half-week trek in the foothills of the Himalayas. We spent a few days in Kathmandu before and after the trek, where we saw some amazing sights. Finally, my parents, Piett, and I made a quick stop in Bangkok on the way back to our respective homes. (To read more, there’s all my posts tagged “Nepal” in reverse chronological order, or you could flash all the way back to my very first “so, I’m going on an epic adventure” confession post and work around from there.)
ANYWAY. In my last Nepal travelogue post I left off at the end of our trek, with our flight out of Lukla airport back to Kathmandu, which I’d like to point out was a tough act to follow (seriously, search YouTube for “Lukla airport” in case you’ve somehow managed to forget). But this is NaBloPoMo, people, and this year’s theme is blogging for the sake of blogging, and so I’m going to be absolutely shameless about using this as an excuse to dig way deep in my archives of blog fodder. So. Back to Kathmandu. For just a little more context, here is a link to what I blogged about that return four years ago (complete with yet another reference to the Lukla airport YouTube videos because seriously, they are amazing) but for the rest, on with the pictures.
I don’t really trust the dates on my photo files after many timezone shifts and uploadings, so I’m not sure how long we’d been flying in the little puddle-jumper when I noticed something interesting about the landscape below:
Liveblogging TEDxManhattan: “Changing the Way We Eat” 12 February 2011 4:19 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,eating,environment,events,geekery,liveblogging,nyc,school,sustainability,writing , add a commentHey party people, surprise Saturday post!
I am coming to you sort of live from the 4th floor of NYU’s Kimmel Center, site of the NYC FoodEDU Student Food Collaborative TEDxManhattan viewing party (official Meetup site for the event here). For more information about TEDxManhattan, try this link here; we’re currently watching the third session, which kicks off with an old TED video of Dr. William Liu of the Angiogenesis Foundation, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” So far I am very happy to hear him mention quality of life as a consideration in the usefulness of angiogenesis-based cancer treatment.
I’ll be updating this post as the presentations continue to inspire me to comment, stay tuned (or read on, if you’re reading this after the fact).
Monkey Monday: I made this. 3 May 2010 11:43 pm
Posted by Tracy in : economics,environment,geekery,health,monkeys,pictures,politics,school,sustainability , 2 commentsI surprised myself today by producing not one but two diagrams for my final paper on food policy for urban and metropolitan regions. One of them even helped me organize a whole host of food policy issues according to a definition of sustainability based on health, the environment, and economics, like so:
Sustainable urban-metropolitan food policy, sort of.
The big breakthrough was the realization that sustainability and its environmental, economic, and health aspects are not food policy goals so much as they are common unifying themes shared across many food system goals and the policies and programs designed to pursue them, if that makes any sense. Anyway, that diagram helped me do a pretty decent presentation in class this afternoon, despite my weak chalkboard-fu and the fact that I hadn’t finished the paper yet. The first six pages are really solid, and I’m actually look forward to doing more on that project, even as I put it on hold to do the final for my food processing and industrialization class.
I’ll be fine if I just breathe.
Also, I had a fantastic sea scallop, fava bean, and rhubarb appetizer at Braeburn tonight. Nom.
Bed now! And way less coffee, iced or otherwise, for me tomorrow. G’night!
Ask TracyFood: should I freak out about genetically modified foods? 10 March 2010 11:05 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,books,economics,environment,food safety,food snobbery,friends,geekery,GMOs,health,history,Marion Nestle,politics,science,sustainability , 1 comment so farSo I got a message from the splendiferous Ms. Lara earlier today:
Hey, Tracy! Someone on FB is arguing that GM crops are categorically horrible and bad and whatnot. Can you send me some informative links to help educate her (and myself!)? (I seem to recall you linked to an article about the death of an agriculturalist who saved millions of lives with his crops, so of course I thought of you…)
Many thanks to my favorite foodie!!
-L
Well. How could I resist the chance to go all run-on sentence on that? (more…)
