Belated randomness! Now with extra funny! 28 October 2009 5:32 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,culture,fast food,food snobbery,fun,funny,health,health at every size,media,nutrition,random,video , View CommentsI don’t know about the rest of you, but I find regular laughter to be an essential component of a balanced media consumption lifestyle, right along with serious hard-thinking stuff like class readings. (For sociology next week I had to choose between Barry Popkin’s The World is Fat and Hank Cardello and ghostwriter Doug Carr’s Stuffed: An Insider’s Look at Who’s (Really) Making America Fat. Yeah, that’s rough. But the Popkin book is shorter and not based on the premise that only the food industry can save us from ourselves, so it wins, even if it may yet force a ranty post or two out of me.) I digress. Here’s a few instances of food politics in pop culture that helped me keep things in perspective: (more…)
Taco Tuesday! 12 May 2009 8:44 am
Posted by Tracy in : convenience,eating,fast food,nyc,pictures,street food,vegetarian , View CommentsThese may or may not be a hot mess, but they are definitely delicious:
Those are vegetarian tacos from the Tacos Idolo(s?) truck that sometimes appears along Avenue of the Americas by the West 4th St./Washington Square subway stop. They contain refried beans, shredded lettuce and cabbage, tomato, avocado, crema (Mexican sour cream), and cotija cheese. Last time I got them, they cost $2.50 apiece, which is heck of cheap but kind of a bummer at the time because I only had five bucks on me and before the price went up I could get two tacos and still tip the guy.
Still, mmm, tacos. And yay having the option of ordering fillings like goat, tripe, and ear, even if I’m too wussy to try them. Reason #238593 for loving life in New York City is ready access to awesome street food. Nom nom nom.
And now, once again, I go back to work.
Monkey Monday: catching up. 17 November 2008 1:51 pm
Posted by Tracy in : Marion Nestle,baking,books,consumerism,economics,events,fast food,food snobbery,geekery,meta,news,nyc,politics,recipes,school , View CommentsSo I missed a few posts at the end of last week because it was Penny’s birthday and cake was more fun and distracting than writing here. (I did eventually finish entries for Thursday and Friday, so check those out when you get a chance. Also, I rewrote What is Tracy Food? just a little bit.) Quick summary of the rest of this entry: more baked goods, food news stories and commentary, a little school update, and my plans for additional food geeking this week. (more…)
An open letter to Keith Knight. 25 March 2008 8:25 am
Posted by Tracy in : books,eating,fast food,food snobbery,geekery,meat,people,travel , View CommentsDear Keef,
First things first: you probably don’t remember me, and that’s okay. I wasn’t expecting to meet you at the 2003 Alternative Press Expo or I might have been more prepared to offer a body part for you to sign. Or maybe I would have been just as starstruck as I was to run into you by surprise, at your table next to Stephen “Bob the Angry Flower” Notley’s. I remember that I totally flushed and couldn’t really make eye contact as I looked through your merch, wishing I had money to burn, since even then (holy cats, five years ago) I had been an admirer of your comics for many years. But I digress.
As a longtime reader of your fantastic strip, The K Chronicles, I thought I knew and loved your way with food. (more…)
Another quickie: Feng shui McDonalds in L.A. 27 February 2008 8:42 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,fast food,news,restaurants,weird , View CommentsAgain, seriously, this was just too weird not to share: Calif. McDonald’s Tries Feng Shui Theme, via Eating Liberally, whose writer is way more feng shui literate than I will likely ever be. Here’s the part that really made my head spin: (more…)
