Twitter Tuesday: urrrrrrrrrgh edition. 29 November 2011 6:33 pm
Posted by Tracy in : food safety,food snobbery,news,random,Twitter Tuesday , add a commentOk, so I saw an oddly fitting tweet not long after forcing myself up this morning (it was still morning, though only by an hour or so, and I probably could have slept more but I had enough trouble getting to sleep at an earlyish hour last night that I decided not to push my luck — or my ability to breathe, which is unreliable thanks to upper respiratory ickiness):
dcorsetto Danielle Corsetto
Auugh I am going to be so sick tomorrow, I can just feel it. The good news is, I’m certain it’ll make my #TMITuesday even more exciting.
I will spare you the TMI, readers, but suffice it to say that I whined way too soon yesterday. Oooof. Anyway. S-s-s-somethings from the Twitter: (more…)
Another Twitter Tuesday! 8 November 2011 11:24 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen,diet stress is a health hazard,events,fangirl,fast food,food safety,food snobbery,health at every size,media,meta,news,Twitter Tuesday , add a commentHey, so like I confessed yesterday, I really didn’t know what to blog about today, only then suddenly, to my surprise and delight, the Twitters, which I kinda sorta really hadn’t been watching since last Tuesday, came through for me in a big way. Check these out! First and foremost, my former classmate Shanti with news that makes me want to make horrible puns about sticky messes:
Shanti Elise Prasad (@shantielise)
If you eat honey, this may blow your mind. Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey… foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-…
I’m having a little trouble wrapping my head around this story, personally, because as far as I can tell from the article, the definition of “honey” being argued about here is whether or not (for example) the sweet golden goo in the plastic bear has pollen in it. But the article’s scandal-monger-y lede:
More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn’t exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News.
really rubs me the wrong way. Because with the possible exception of some wild-caught fish, pretty much no animal product sold in U.S. grocery stores is exactly what the animals in question produce. It’s all processed one way or another. (more…)
Tuesday is for Technical Difficulties. And Twitter. 1 November 2011 3:28 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,events,food safety,food snobbery,geekery,hot mess,Michael Pollan,random,Twitter Tuesday,whoops,writing , add a commentWell, readers, I’m sorry to report that my NaBloPoMo effort is off to a very frustrating beginning, as the Tumblr I created and registered for the event seems to be a nonstarter—I haven’t been able to confirm my registration with BlogHer and on top of that Tumblr doesn’t support fun and easy imports from other sites anymore, so I’m going to have to cross-post by hand for the time being. Whine, whine, whine.
But enough of that, on with Twitter Tuesday. Like the name suggests, my thought here is to aggregate various and sundry amusing tweets that catch my eye over the course of any given arbitrary period of time (since I can’t keep up with them, it pretty much has to be a quasi-random sampling, that’s for sure). (more…)
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…)
Foto Friday: the last time I ate tuna. 30 October 2009 3:32 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,consumerism,eating,environment,fish,food safety,food snobbery,health,Holland,Marion Nestle,Netherlands,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures,restaurants,sustainability,tuna , 1 comment so farIt has been exactly four months since I last ate tuna. I believe this may be some kind of personal record; at the very least, it is the longest I can remember going without tuna since I cared to keep track of such things. Let me explain.
I love tuna; I think it’s incredibly delicious. Unfortunately, since because of that deliciousness it’s effectively an endangered fricken species, I try not to eat it too often, on account of how I’ll be a very cranky old lady indeed if large ocean fish are extinct in the next 40 to 50 years and I’m trying to do my part to reduce demand and all that. (Because I eat it so rarely, I’m not freaking out about the whole methylmercury problem, but it is horrific and I am eternally grateful to Marion Nestle’s What to Eat for the revelation that it’s not bioaccumulative.) Anyway.
I’ve been reading a bunch about tuna farming this week — real tuna farming, not “catch baby tuna in the wild and raise them in captivity” tuna ranching, but actual farming, baby fish hatched in captivity and everything, and my personal jury is still out, to put it mildly. I wanted to come to some kind of conclusion about this latest development in time to add it to this post, but it will have to wait for another time. In the meantime, I will continue my tuna-free streak. Luckily, the last time I ate tuna was so fantastic that it’s given me an even better motivation not to crack open the canned stuff — simply put, it’s going to be very hard to find another tuna meal this good. Behold:
I’m guessing that’s a good quarter kilo of fish, at least.
