Foto Friday: recipe revisionism EXPOSED! 11 November 2011 2:52 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen,baking,consumerism,cookies,diet stress is a health hazard,food snobbery,geekery,photos,pictures,random,recipes,seasonality , add a commentJust one picture today, readers, but it is a doozy! Check this out:
Oatmeal cookie recipe revisionism — EXPOSED!
Do you know what this means, readers? DO YOU? (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…)
Monkey Monday: weekend in review, week in preview 7 November 2011 10:10 am
Posted by Tracy in : books,economics,food snobbery,geekery,meta,monkeys,news,politics,random,society , add a commentToday’s Monkey Monday randomness starts with a a shoutback to the weekend’s successful continuation of my NaBloPoMo efforts, because they both include responses to recent food-relevant news events. (Also, and speaking of success, I am happy to report that as of checking in at NaBloPoMo Central on Saturday afternoon, I have at long last managed to sign myself up! I’m #2011 on the official blogroll, which seems auspicious.) There’s also a preview of what I’ve got planned for TracyFood this week: lots of pictures, a long-delayed recipe, and… um, I’m not sure what I’m writing about tomorrow. Open to suggestions over here…. but meanwhile, on with today’s show!
First things first, a bit of serious news: my former classmate Christine is in northern Italy, where flooding and mudslides have turned her blog away from a dreamy chronicle of emigration and gastrotouristic entrepreneurship, into the story of life in a disaster zone (the town of Monterosso, which was devastated, to put it mildly). There are links in her posts to various charities and other efforts to help support the region’s recovery, as I wrote in this weekend’s letter to global climate change, which I totally believe in and really wish would stop proving itself through dramatic, disastrous weather events. (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…)
Monkey Monday: Halloween and more! 31 October 2011 6:17 pm
Posted by Tracy in : advice,cooking,eating,events,food snobbery,friends,fun,meta,monkeys,photos,pictures,random , add a commentHey party people, happy Halloween! Check out this fantastic foodie Danse Macabre image from comics badass Dylan Meconis:
Pretty sweet, right?
I’ll return to the Danse Macabre later in this post, after a few Monkey Monday odds and ends: a recent post brought up to speed, a friend’s question answered, and then a (death-defying?) challenge… (more…)
