Thank you Thursday: ice cream appreciation. 11 September 2009 4:04 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,dessert,eating,fangirl,food snobbery,good news,milk,news,pictures,politics,school,video , add a commentSo this belated Thank you Thursday is going up Friday, just like Monday’s monkeys were a bit off-schedule. Speaking of off-schedule, it turns out I can’t crash tonight’s Contemporary Issues class, because Professor Ray’s out of town. So much for my cunning plan. On the upside, I’m back to digging the syllabus for Advanced Topics: Food Sociology, and I have written permission to skip the class which overlaps so strongly with the sustainable agriculture course I took at the University of Oregon. Victory dance! Clearly, this calls for ice cream, or at least the idea thereof (it’s kind of cold and wet out for the real thing).
First of all, a little bit of classic Sesame Street:
Yay! Thanks, YouTube! And thank you, ice cream, for being delicious and making me happy. (more…)
Saying goodbye to Eugene. 25 August 2009 7:08 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,CSA,eating,eggs,eugene,events,fangirl,friends,fun,garden,good news,local food,meat,Morning Glory,news,not even vegetarian,nyc,oregon,seasonality,summer,writing , 2 commentsI wrote this piece for an assignment on personal essays and memoir in my food writing class last fall, and it isn’t exactly true anymore — I have had a few more last Saturdays in Eugene since the one described here. It’s still emotionally true, perhaps more so than ever now, and it’s appropriate, since Peter is saying goodbye to Eugene this morning and coming home to New York City, at last, with his shield, not on it. Congratulations, love. See you soon.
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My last Saturday in Eugene, Oregon was pretty well perfect, thanks to a chance encounter with some carrot greens. I spotted them in the totebags of a pedestrian on the bike path south of the Lane County fairgrounds. She was on her way home from Saturday Market; Peter and I were riding our tandem to coffee after a morning of blueberry picking with Kevin and Laurel. It was August second, and thanks to those greens, I remembered it was our last chance to go to Saturday Market before our move. So after coffee, pastries, and a stumper of a New York Times crossword puzzle, we said goodbye to Kevin and Laurel. They rode south, and Peter and I went north, to our last Saturday Market for a long time. (more…)
Hey NYC party people! 16 August 2009 1:53 pm
Posted by Tracy in : fun,good news,nyc,pictures,random,travel , add a commentWant to do something awesome today? Then come on up to Harlem Day, the epic street fair currently rocking West 135th Street from St. Nicholas Street on eastwards (that would be the 135th street B/C stop, by the way). It runs until 7 PM tonight, and at sunset there’s a free screening of The Wiz in St. Nicholas Park (West 135th and St. Nicholas), preceded by live music, all courtesy of the fine folks at ImageNation. Can you say “best audience ever?” I knew you could! Anyway. Come one, come all! It’s going to be awesome! (more…)
Monkey Monday: I’m feeling lucky. 25 May 2009 1:40 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,friends,fun,good news,monkeys,not even vegetarian,random,vegan,vegetarian , 2 commentsSo I have an announcement. It turns out May 2009 is Tracy Wins Cookbooks From The Internet Month. Not that I’m complaining or anything, oh no, far from it. Here’s what happened:
Last Sunday I got email from Culinate informing me that I’d won (more…)
Monkey Monday: belated Thursday thanks. 18 May 2009 2:01 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,good news,health,kitchen gear,Marion Nestle,monkeys,nutrition,school,sustainability,thank you Thursday , 1 comment so farSo first of all: thanks for being over, spring semester! I am getting way too old and cranky to stay up like I did last Wednesday night/Thursday morning to finish my vitamin C paper, but I did get it done, even if I forgot to cite any of Dr. Nestle‘s books in it (sigh). The fortification chapter of Food Politics would’ve been particularly appropriate for examples of how ascorbic acid is a great way to give junk food a health aura — and on top of that, it’s a preservative! Double whammy! On the other hand, I came in at exactly the 10-page limit (after severely truncating my Works Consulted section, which is where all of Dr. Nestle’s books should’ve gone if I’d had the pages), and I’d lost enough sleep without shoehorning in yet another chunk of information. So I’m going to hope everything’s all for the best.
Next, one more item related to the vitamin C paper: big thanks to Andrew for pointing me at a very recent study about vitamin supplements and exercise. So perfect for the “discuss a current paper about your nutrient” requirement!
Let’s see, what else? (more…)
