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Monkey Monday: yes I said yes I will Yes. 7 January 2008 12:48 pm

Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen, anthropology, fangirl, garden, geekery, school, seasonality , 2 comments

Happy 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

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Monkey Monday: My awesome food geek weekend 19 February 2007 2:49 am

Posted by Tracy in : CSA, Marion Nestle, WFFC, agriculture, anthropology, books, cooking, dessert, eating, fangirl, friends, geekery, health, monkeys, news, people, school, sustainability, tea , 1 comment so far

A short version of the weekend, in numbered list form:

  1. Conferences attended and new journals started because the old one was full of notes
  2. Books purchased (Safe Food by Marion Nestle and Eat Here by Brian Halweil), and hours driven to and from Corvallis for the conference.
  3. Hours of tapes filled with recordings of talks, small sessions attended (i.e. not keynote or endnote), business cards collected (one from the Ecotrust guy promoting the Farmer-Chef Connection conferences, one from a very kind OSU geography professor, and one from an NYU food studies program graduate who now works for a Seattle market research firm that gathered the data I need for my book on what happens now that organic is mainstream), and Marion Nestle autographs collected like the fangirl I am.
  4. Fountain pen cartridges emptied while taking the aforementioned pages and pages of notes, and total tea bags consumed at Allison’s house and at the conference.

I could go on and on, but I think you’re getting the idea. (more…)

Happy Marion Nestle Appreciation Weekend! 16 February 2007 12:15 pm

Posted by Tracy in : Marion Nestle, WFFC, agriculture, books, fangirl, geekery, school, sustainability , 1 comment so far

Today there’s not a lot a lot going on in my brain besides excitement about the fact that I’m going to see talks by Marion Nestle at OSU tonight and tomorrow at the Small Farms Conference. I realize that this makes me a giant geek, but what else is new? (more…)