Foto Friday: words in pictures 8 August 2008 10:21 am
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, good news, events, travel, pictures, meta, news, friends , add a commentWordle is a shiny applet that takes a big list of words and arranges them into a pretty collage-thing based in part on the frequency words appear (users can mess with the fonts and colors and tweak layouts). It’s a fascinating game, and yesterday I spent a very long time giving it all the tags I’ve ever used on TracyFood posts, with the following result (finally saved a few minutes ago, after lots and lots of the aforementioned tweaking):
Click through for a larger version; I think it’s pretty awesome. But another awesome thing happened yesterday, (more…)
In which subscribing to the food geek email list pays off bigtime. 16 July 2008 9:27 pm
Posted by Tracy in : events, geekery, school , 1 comment so farLook what I found in my inbox! Thanks, handy-dandy subscription to the Association for the Study of Food & Society (ASFS) listserv!
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Foodies on The Web: A Symposium on Food and New Media
(January 30 - 31, 2009
Boston University)
Many have argued that the Internet and the arrival of Web 2.0 (if there is such a thing) have created new forms of web-based community and interpersonal communications. This has extended into the world of food with the rise of popular food blogs, community-based websites such as Chowhound, Yelp and Citysearch, and other forms of information sharing and collaboration (e.g. YouTube, Wikis, TasteBook, and so forth).
The goal of this symposium is to explore how, if at all, these new technologies have changed the way people eat, cook, share recipes, decide where to have dinner, learn about nutrition, or simply think about food?
Topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to, (more…)
Monkey Monday: NYC trip, garden update, and more! 19 May 2008 8:58 am
Posted by Tracy in : garden, travel, fangirl, events, pictures, baking, eating, books, Marion Nestle, school, cooking , add a commentFirst and foremost, readers, if you like my banana bread recipe, I’d really appreciate your giving it (and me) some love over at Not Quite Nigella’s banana bread recipe collection roundup, which got an amazing 79 replies. If you don’t like my banana bread recipe, there might be something over there that’s more your speed — heck, there may be something over there for you even if you don’t usually like banana bread, the responses are that diverse! However, if you never, ever like banana bread, then you should under no circumstances click that last link, because there is nothing there for you. (But seriously, check it out. And vote for me!)
In other news, I had a great time in NYC, (more…)
What’s in my freezer? 15 May 2008 9:04 am
Posted by Tracy in : events, not even vegetarian, food storage, pictures , add a commentSo Chez Us asked a good question a little more than a week ago, and a day or two after that I finally got around to taking a picture of the contents of my freezer, and a day or two after that I got distracted by this little trip to the East Coast. (New York City, by the way, is still made of awesome.) While I was easily able to name three things without looking for the Vegan MoFo survey a while back, listing the full contents of my freezer is difficult even when I’m staring it cold in the face. Now, for my amusement (and hopefully yours as well) I’m going to attempt to respond to that very good question from all the way across the country, just by looking at those week-or-so-old pictures. Here goes!
Sunday surprise: Banana bread photo recipe 11 May 2008 7:53 pm
Posted by Tracy in : pictures, events, baking, dessert, recipes, cooking , add a commentHappy Sunday, all! Some of you (hi, Liz!) may remember this banana bread from this recipe here, which I posted sans illustrations because Liz asked nicely, just a few days before the announcement of Not Quite Nigella’s Banana Bread Bake-Off. Now, at long last, here’s the illustrated version I first alluded to more than a month ago. The finished product looks like this:
which is to say, pretty darn tasty. Now, here’s how to make it: (more…)
