Monkey Monday: Thanksgiving week continues. 21 November 2011 11:42 pm
Posted by Tracy in : comics,cooking,diet stress is a health hazard,eating,geekery,health,monkeys,news,nutrition,random,science , add a commentSo I got into the Thanksgiving spirit early with my epistolography yesterday, and I’ve got a few extra gratitude-themed posts planned for later this week (one of which is foreshadowed by a high-larious comic hidden in a link in this very entry!)
I feel like I’m turning into the NaBloPoMo homestretch, and that means I have to be extra-bonus careful not to fall into complacency, especially at the end of this week when I’ll be all distracted by holiday family action. Today I have been all distracted in general but a highlight of that distraction was that I now know I can make pierogies! This changes everything! Ok, not really, but (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 commentSo 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):
Exciting!
And today I’m going to elaborate considerably on that picture. Because that’s just how I roll. (more…)
Monkey Monday: new books and more 14 November 2011 4:53 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,books,consumerism,eating,geekery,news,science , add a commentAlmost halfway through NaBloPoMo, definitely feeling the crunch on my brain, even for short attention span theater like Monkey Mondays traditionally are. So today I’m keeping it short, with some excitement about new books, and a bit of snark-rant about a news item that made me go “durrrrrrrrr.” Here we go. I’ll start with the snark and end on the happy book geekery notes.
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Last Wednesday a New York Times “Well” blog post appeared in my Facebook feed: Tired of Feeling the Burn? Low-Acid Diet May Help and I reposted it (more…)
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…)
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…)
