Monkey Monday: recently closed browser tabs ahoy! 8 February 2010 1:21 am
Posted by Tracy in : eating,fangirl,food snobbery,geekery,Harold McGee,news,random,reading,school , add a commentGo go gadget Google Reader, still shortening my attention span after all these years:
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This link to one blogger’s notes about December’s Food and Climate Change Summit is to remind me to blog up my own notes about that event already, geez I am such a slacker yadda yadda.
The Fat Nutritionist continues to rock harder than oh, I dunno, but something that rocks really hard.
Michael Ruhlman takes on the idea that people in the U.S. are too stupid to cook with (and I quote exactly): The World’s Most Difficult Roasted Chicken Recipe. Now if only everybody had the time and mental energy to cook more often, I think something like Heaven might emerge. Even for people who don’t like to cook, because I for one like inviting people over for dinner. (more…)
Random old news of awesomeness. 2 February 2010 5:50 pm
Posted by Tracy in : diet stress is a health hazard,eating,geekery,Harold McGee,health,health at every size,nutrition,pictures,random,reading,science,weird,whoops , add a commentSometimes it’s especially good to celebrate good things, and today’s post is dedicated to just that. I am supposed to be reading about the role of women in the invention of food science during MIT’s early years, which makes thinking good thoughts all the more important. Sample bit o’grumpy-making:
In his autobiography… Ellen [Henrietta Swallow Richards]‘s husband, Robert H. Richards, stated that “Ellen Swallow wanted a Doctor’s Degree, but although she worked hard for two years, she had to give up the idea. This was probably one of her greatest disappointments in life. It seems to me possible that some of the difficulties may have arisen from the fact that the heads of the department did not wish a woman to receive the first D.S. in chemistry.”
—Richards, R.S., His Mark, cited in Goldblith, S.A., Of Microbes and Molecules: Food Technology, Nutrition, and Applied Biology at M.I.T., 1873-1988, pp. 20-1
Graaaar! (Also, way to write about your partner like she’s a stranger, dude.) As far as I can tell, Ellen H. Swallow Richards was a stupendous badass and entirely too awesome for the jerks at MIT who wouldn’t admit her to the faculty (she was the Institute’s first female student—a Special Student category seems to have been made up entirely for her—and the first female member of its Instructing Staff), let alone let her complete a Ph.D. Also, if I read one more “Ms. X married Prof. Y, so he was probably her thesis advisor,” I may have to go into hysterics or something. Sigh. Hence my need to write about some good news!
Most of the stuff in this post isn’t particularly new, because I’ve been behind on all kinds of news for basically a year now, but if you’re like me, and have trouble keeping up with stuff, or just want to read about stuff that’s happy once in a while, then you’re in luck. Geekery ahoy! (more…)
Monkey Monday: winter squash goodness and more. 2 November 2009 9:47 am
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,eating,fangirl,Harold McGee,health at every size,kitchen mishaps,monkeys,nyc,reading,seasonality,winter squash , 2 commentsFun fact! In some dialects of English (but not mine), the word “pumpkin” is used to refer to all winter squash, not just the orange hard-skinned kinds used to make pies and jack-o-lanterns (and other tasty things, some of which I will be describing later in this post). In my experience, this is mostly a Southern Hemisphere/British usage, but I welcome a more substantial analysis than my touchy-feely “I think this is how it works.” Meanwhile, in this Northern Hemisphere, between Halloween and the end of Daylight Savings Time it’s officially winter in my brain, and for the past week or so I have been marking the changing season by eating lots of winter squash, including pumpkin. Yum.
For starters, (more…)
Foto Friday: yay! 16 October 2009 11:49 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,events,fangirl,geekery,Harold McGee,kitchen gear,photos,school , add a commentHappy World Food Day, readers. Yesterday was so awesome that I’m still in a really good mood today, despite the weather outside still looking like yuck. It’s definitely turned into the season for comfort food, so today I would like to share pictures of a most successful experiment in the very best of belly-warming goodness, and celebrate proving to myself that I can still write and publish a full set of weekday posts.
But speaking of yesterday, yuck weather, and experimental cooking, (more…)
What are you up to today, Tracy? 15 October 2009 10:56 am
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,culture,fangirl,food as spectator sport,fun,geekery,good news,Harold McGee,media,school,thank you Thursday , 1 comment so farWhy thank you, hypothetical question, I’m glad you asked! Check this out:
The New York University Fales Library,
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education
and Human Development, Department of
Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health;
and Clark Wolf cordially invite you to:
