Flashback: competitive eating at Harvey Mudd College 9 March 2011 3:09 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,eating,events,food as spectator sport,school,silly,writing , add a commentOkay, so if all goes according to plan, soon you will call me Master (hey, I’m writing a self-indulgent flashback to undergraduate days at engineering school; I get to be as geeky as I want). Which is to say that if all continues according to plan this should be my last semester of my Master’s degree in food studies (concentration: food systems and policy, and please feel free to forward that information and my resumé to anyone you know who’s hiring food geeks) at NYU! So. In an effort to finish said Master’s, I’m in a class called Research Applications, in which my fellow last-semester students and I help each other work on big research projects. Which, it turns out, has a way of inspiring me to write blog posts, or at least this one.
One of my classmates (who will remain anonymous at least until she reads this post and tells me if she’s OK with my using her name) is writing about “extreme eating”—Man Versus Food, the Heart Attack Grille, stuff like that. One angle she’s particularly interested in is how college students engage in extreme eating and the gendered dimensions of such activity. Which sent me into a little flashback earlier today, because (perhaps unsurprisingly) something about the male-dominated environment of my undergrad engineering college did in fact lend itself to regular events involving some degree of competitive eating, a few of which I will now describe (and link to my class discussion board in case anybody’s interested in reading more than a summary). (more…)
Another belated Foto Friday: adventures in Upper Class dining 15 February 2010 1:53 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,eating,food as spectator sport,food snobbery,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures,salad,silly,travel,vegetarian,weird , 3 commentsAll right, party people, I’m pretty sure this is the last post in my series on traveling super-fancy Virgin Atlantic Upper Class style. The first was during the trip out to my Opa’s funeral early last month, then a few weeks later I showed off my flying fancy schwag (and the Virgin Clubhouse at Heathrow, OMG, and yesterday Friday I posted a bit about the actual in-flight experience. But I have, in a sense, saved the best for last, which is to say today I’ll be writing about what I ate on said ridiculously luxurious flight.
Perusng the menu.
Foto Friday: more cookies, less ranting. 20 November 2009 12:08 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking,books,cookies,dessert,food as spectator sport,food snobbery,fun,winter squash , 1 comment so farSo yesterday I thought about going out to do some responsible stuff before my 7 PM yoga class, but decided that I would be happier staying at home to restock our supply of delicious instant food. End result bragged to Facebook and Twitter last night:
Final score for Afternoon O’Domesticity: 1 big pot dal, 1 batch punkin spice cookies, 1 pan cornbread, and many dishes done… priceless.
The dal was an extra-spicy version of the recipe I made up out of Nepal nostalgia, and the cornbread and pumpkin cookies are both from my beloved Moosewood New Classics. It’s actually my second batch of these cookies in a week; the first was last Friday, when I decided it was time to use up the leftover canned pumpkin from our Halloween winter squash-stravaganza — only then of course I ended up opening another can of pumpkin, so I was still left with a partial can in the fridge, like when I started, only with more delicious, delicious cookies. Check them out! (more…)
What are you up to today, Tracy? 15 October 2009 10:56 am
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,culture,fangirl,food as spectator sport,fun,geekery,good news,Harold McGee,media,school,thank you Thursday , 1 comment so farWhy thank you, hypothetical question, I’m glad you asked! Check this out:
The New York University Fales Library,
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education
and Human Development, Department of
Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health;
and Clark Wolf cordially invite you to:
FOOD SHOW
WHEN PERFORMANCE BECOMES LUNCH & WHY WE FINALLY HAVE AN APPETITE FOR A NEW SORT OF COOKING SHOW
Liveblogging ATK, 5 April 2008 5 April 2008 2:27 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen,cooking,food as spectator sport,geekery,liveblogging , add a commentHere I go again… it was fun last week, okay?
2 PM: Roasting a turkey without brining, differences between heirloom & supermarket turkeys, inexpensive roasting pans, green beans (with Bridget! yay!)
2:01 PM: Okay, so I’m a little less enthused by the content of this episode but Bridget’s back! Yay!
2:02 PM: Chris gives his intro: what if we do brine without salt?
Bridget Lancaster is so awesome. (more…)
