Foto Friday: excuses, excuses, and another specials menu. 13 June 2008 11:25 pm
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast, garden, pictures, family, food safety, not even vegetarian, eggs, seasonality, work, eating, restaurants, meta, eugene, Morning Glory, news, cooking , add a commentHey everybody! I’m not dead in a ditch! Here’s some quick hints about what I’ve been up to instead of posting here:
In next week’s posts, I’ll actually write captions for all those and (more…)
Monkey Monday: goodbye, red cutting board. 5 May 2008 11:53 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism, food safety, monkeys, pictures, meta, kitchen gear, cooking , add a commentSo this post is late because every time I started writing anything all weekend Monday it turned into paragraphs of whining about how I’m not writing very well lately, and I had this stupid head cold, and blah blah blah blah blah. Turns out I can still write picture captions, though, though, so I’m going to make a lot of image-heavy posts while I hope that words and I come back to an understanding in the not too distant future (like so I can write a bunch of emails before my trip out to New York starting Friday — eep!) Anyway.
The week of pictures begins on a weirdly sad note: last week we discovered big freaky cracks in the red cutting board featured so prominently in many a Flickr picture tagged “tracyfood”:
Monkey Monday: pop quiz edition 24 March 2008 5:40 pm
Posted by Tracy in : food safety, monkeys, Morning Glory, news, books , add a commentHey readers! Do you know how to handle a melon? Bix at Fanatic cook has some pointers, in light of the recent FDA warning about Salmonella-contaminated cantaloupe from Honduras. In case you’re wondering, I handle melon as little as possible, because (more…)
In which I get all wonky about meat. 19 February 2008 10:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : politics, meat, food safety, Morning Glory, health, Marion Nestle, agriculture, news, eating , add a commentSo yesterday I was too busy writing about or experiencing technical difficulties to comment on the really big food news of the day, namely largest ground beef recall in U.S. history by Hallmark/Westland, the meatpacking company whose horrific animal handling practices were exposed in a video by an undercover Humane Society activist on January 30. (Full confession: I’m not linking to the now-infamous video because I haven’t watched it yet, because I’m sort of a coward like that. On the other hand, I have seen Chris Cosentino’s photo essay about humane cow slaughter and still managed to eat beef afterwards, albeit not from a scary Cowschwitz like Hallmark/Westland).
So. Here’s the Tracy-take on the biggest ground beef recall in U.S. history: it’s a symbolic gesture, and not even a particularly good one. (more…)
