Monkey Monday: making excuses edition 22 September 2008 11:51 pm
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, monkeys, school, books , add a commentToday’s TracyFood is brought to you late by my shiny new MacBook and iPod Touch. Holy monkey gods, new toys are time-consuming and addictive. It was all I could do to tear myself away from the new laptop and take the Touch downtown to the “M. F. K. Fisher: Poet of the Appetites” symposium at The New School. You can watch it here, if you’re interested. It was pretty great, and free for all students, not just The New School’s! Yay!
Now, of course, I have to spend lots more quality time with The Art of Eating
The symposium featured:
- Joan Reardon, Fisher’s biographer several times over, who spoke about the particular difficulties in writing about someone whose work was “unremittingly autobiographical,”
- Judith Jones, one of Fisher’s editors and author of the autobiography The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, which I had to return to the Eugene Public Library unfinished before we moved,
- Amanda Hesser, author of The Cook and the Gardener and Cooking for Mr. Latte, the latter of which was recommended to me literally just last night,
- and Kennedy Friede Golden, M. F. K. Fisher’s youngest daughter.
Next month (October 16, to be exact) the New School is having a forum about Edible Manhattan, a new magazine about the food culture of the island (as distinct from Brooklyn, which has had its own Edible publication for awhile now). It’s free to students, too, and I can’t go because it’s at the same time as my food writing class, ironically enough. Maybe we can have a field trip?
Wednesday “whoops” redux 17 September 2008 11:55 pm
Posted by Tracy in : silly, mishaps, random, fangirl, school, geekery, Warren Belasco , add a commentSo regular readers of this blog will know that I have been sooooooo excited about school for awhile now, like at least since getting in. My eagerness was such that I programmed my class schedule into Google Calendar when I first registered in May. Only it turns out the gods of the Internet adjusted for time zones when we moved…. which is why, at 7:35 tonight, when I started recognizing some other food studies first-years in a flood of people emerging from the direction of the classroom where I thought I should be going, I finally figured out that my class was at 4:55. Gah! (I didn’t figure out about the time change earlier because I had to rearrange the rest of my schedule on short notice, but I made those changes after leaving the Pacific time zone.)
The good news (and the reason I don’t want do-overs for the whole friggin’ day) is that I did something fun and geeky before going down to NYU campus to eat dinner (mmm, pizza) and finish my class reading (urgh, academic sociology). (more…)
Monkey Monday: food irradiation, breakfast cereal, and more! 8 September 2008 1:46 pm
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, breakfast, food safety, good news, New York, random, monkeys, politics, Marion Nestle, books, school, news, milk, restaurants , 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…)
Do me a favor, readers. 4 September 2008 4:52 pm
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, not even vegetarian, history, meat, politics, eating, vegetarian, people , 1 comment so farI need your help.
Together, we can destroy the myth that Hitler was a vegetarian.
Seriously. I know it’s a funny thing to talk about and all — even Eddie Izzard gave it a go in the otherwise entirely brilliant Dress to Kill — but it’s not true. Hitler was no more vegetarian than I am, which is to say he was maybe a picky meat eater, but he definitely ate the flesh of dead animals. There is plenty of documentation of this fact (more on that in a bit). Please, everybody spread this idea far and wide, because I am entirely sick of hearing people snicker about the idea of a genocidal maniac who wouldn’t eat anything that involved killing animals.
I’m bringing this up now because (more…)
Monkey Monday: a little school update. 25 August 2008 8:00 am
Posted by Tracy in : good news, fangirl, geekery, school, Marion Nestle , 1 comment so farSo school starts the first week of September, with orientation type activities the week before that (i.e. starting tomorrow). I’m still trying to figure out the exact details of new grad student fun and games (so far my quest to obtain a student ID have been fruitless) but in the meantime I’ve turned class registration lemons into delicious metaphorical lemonade, I tell you what. (more…)
