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Twitter Tuesday: #kitchenpetpeeves 31 January 2012 9:20 am

Posted by Tracy in : advice,cooking,food snobbery,food storage,kitchen gear,kitchen mishaps,Twitter Tuesday , add a comment

So I just found out about the Twitter hashtag #kitchenpetpeeves and as @michaelnatkin (Michael Natkin of Herbivoracious.com) says:

If you are considering restaurant work, read this hashtag #kitchenpetpeeves – a hell of a lot of education in every 140 chars

I tell you, he only speaks the truth. After only a bit of scrolling, I found pretty much everything I might have tweeted myself (and they’re not all about terrible restaurant customers, either!) Here are some of my favorites (bonus: writing this post has distracted me from reading the whole thread and stopped me from retweeting all but a few of these):

Joshua Galliano @cookingkid
almost empty containers not consolidated into smaller ones RT @ad_it_up #kitchenpetpeeves empty containers in the walkin

This one drives me nuts even at home, even when I’m the one guilty of not bothering to free up fridge space! (more…)

Twitter Tuesday: urrrrrrrrrgh edition. 29 November 2011 6:33 pm

Posted by Tracy in : food safety,food snobbery,news,random,Twitter Tuesday , add a comment

Ok, 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…)

Wordless Wednesday: Turducken edition (may not be not safe for veg*ns). 23 November 2011 11:20 pm

Posted by Tracy in : food as spectator sport,food snobbery,funny,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures , add a comment

Freedom From Want.

Peter starts in on the turkey. (more…)

Foto Friday: Coffee experiment! 18 November 2011 1:25 pm

Posted by Tracy in : food snobbery,fun,geekery,kitchen gear,milk,photos,pictures,reading,recipes,sundance,taste test , add a comment

So yesterday I posted the following picture to Twitter and Tumblr via Instagram on my iPhone (remember that comic I shared on Tuesday with a character reading news from “this thing I can’t put down to save my life”? Yeah, that’s me. Anyway):

Experimenting with coffee-by-weights-not-volumes, as described in this week's New Yorker (yay annual food issue!)
Exciting!

And today I’m going to elaborate considerably on that picture. Because that’s just how I roll. (more…)

Thank you Thursday: Keith Knight 17 November 2011 8:45 am

Posted by Tracy in : comics,eating,environment,fangirl,fish,food snobbery,pictures,thank you Thursday , add a comment

So last month, Keith Knight (about whom I have fangirled out before on this very blog) reminded me why I don’t eat shark anymore:

I’ve actually been meaning to write something about this for more than a year, ever since (warning: link has some very sad before-and-after pictures of a shark killed for food) a post I saw via The Atlantic‘s now-defunct food blog inspired me to draft a response saying “It’s a no-brainer, really: (more…)