Food writing snarktacular! (For Christine) 30 October 2008 8:18 am
Posted by Tracy in : eugene,food safety,food snobbery,friends,oregon,school,work , 3 commentsI sent this article to my Sugar Momma and her favorite Englishman in Davis, and she said nice things about it, like “Can I forward it to my family?” Flattery rules, and so I am posting this to show off (and so Christine has the option of sending a link instead of all my text).
Possible titles for this piece, depending on who I’m selling it to (in which case there’d be appropriate tweaks, blah blah), include: “Ex-Sundance Employee Tells All!” and “Confessions of a Cheesemonger.” (more…)
Monkey Monday: so much mystery meat! 29 September 2008 8:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : advice,consumerism,food safety,food snobbery,health,ingredients,Marion Nestle,meat,monkeys,mystery meat,news,politics , add a commentSeriously, kids, was it International “Make Tracy Happy to Avoid Mystery Meat” Week and nobody told me? I just kept finding more and more news stories and blog posts to that effect. Also, on a metaphorical level, the TracyFood comment spam just kept pouring in — I broke 16,000 17,000 deleted comments over the weekend (number edited on Sunday morning after I started the post on Friday night). Woo? But seriously, all the scary meat news you can read:
22 September: Sucks to be a factory-farmed pig.
Last Monday, U.S. Food Policy alerted me to a news report about pig abuse at factory farms. The official Associated Press news piece is here, along with a video which I cannot bring myself to watch. You can click through to the full piece without being forced to watch the video, but (more…)
Monkey Monday: food irradiation, breakfast cereal, and more! 8 September 2008 1:46 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,breakfast,food safety,geekery,good news,Marion Nestle,milk,monkeys,news,nyc,politics,random,restaurants,school , add a commentUm, not necessarily in that order. Breakfast first, right? Right. Here goes. I had cereal for breakfast for the first time in a very long time today. Not oatmeal (it’s still way too hot for that), Tracy granola with yogurt, like I love, but something more in the muesli genre (hand-me-down free food from my parents) with milk. Turns out this was a bad idea, one which reminded me why I quit eating cold breakfast cereal. I’m just not a big fan of milk, unless it’s transformed in combination with something delicious, like tea or ice cream ingredients. (I’ll make an exception in the case of hot and fresh chocolatey baked goods, and tomato soup. For some reason I really love the contrast between a glass of cold milk and the savory acidity of hot tomato soup. But I digress.) If grains are going to be soggy, I want them warm, and soaked in delicious stir-fry sauce or something — old milk doesn’t count. So I was still hungry after forcing myself to finish the sad little bowl of milk-soaked oats and whatever. All told, cold breakfast cereal is still not my favorite: anything besides granola leaves much to be desired.
In other news of the disappointing, today the Ethicurean reminded me that the FDA now allows irradiation of spinach and lettuce. (more…)
Foto Friday: excuses, excuses, and another specials menu. 13 June 2008 11:25 pm
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,cooking,eating,eggs,eugene,family,food safety,garden,meta,Morning Glory,news,not even vegetarian,pictures,restaurants,seasonality,work , 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,cooking,food safety,kitchen gear,meta,monkeys,pictures , 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”:
