Monkey Monday: so much mystery meat! 29 September 2008 8:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : food safety, consumerism, food snobbery, ingredients, mystery meat, meat, monkeys, news, health, advice, politics, Marion Nestle , add a commentSeriously, kids, was it International “Make Tracy Happy to Avoid Mystery Meat” Week and nobody told me? I just kept finding more and more news stories and blog posts to that effect. Also, on a metaphorical level, the TracyFood comment spam just kept pouring in — I broke 16,000 17,000 deleted comments over the weekend (number edited on Sunday morning after I started the post on Friday night). Woo? But seriously, all the scary meat news you can read:
22 September: Sucks to be a factory-farmed pig.
Last Monday, U.S. Food Policy alerted me to a news report about pig abuse at factory farms. The official Associated Press news piece is here, along with a video which I cannot bring myself to watch. You can click through to the full piece without being forced to watch the video, but (more…)
Ask TracyFood: about my granola 9 September 2008 10:10 am
Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, breakfast, ingredients, baking, advice, restaurants, health, cooking , add a commentSo a few weeks ago, I got an email:
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Hi, Tracy.
I heard that Padnah’s Pit BBQ is now serving Tracy’s Granola.
First, is this your granola?
If so, is it gluten free? (i.e. no wheat products, rye or barley … and are the oats from a dedicated, wheat-free source, such as Bob’s Red Mill?)
Many of us are gluten intolerant or have full-blown Celiac disease, and most granola uses oats that share process facilities with wheat flour manufacturing, so every grain of oats has a small amount of flour on it, making it dangerous.
If you’re the one making this granola people are raving about and you have not been processing it with gluten free ingredients, your market would increase HUGELY if you began doing so and labeled the packaging with “GLUTEN FREE”.
I appreciate your time and hope to hear from you …. I miss granola!
Sincerely,
Carolyn
Portland, OR
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Here’s what I wrote back: (more…)
Happy birthday to me! 28 August 2008 11:18 am
Posted by Tracy in : good news, health, books, eating , 4 commentsHere’s some good news from the browser tabs I should’ve closed a week ago: for the past more than a month, the New York Times health blog, Well, has been reporting about researchers finally publishing some common sense about diets, weight, and health. I hope you all have read about this already, but it’s important enough (and makes me happy enough) that it seems well worth repeating. So here, some birthday gifts of good news: (more…)
Monkey Monday: just past Sunday night edition 31 March 2008 12:00 am
Posted by Tracy in : monkeys, breakfast, nepal, nutrition, health, news, eating, Marion Nestle, meta, restaurants , add a commentNow with more breakfast news and commentary!
20/20 hindsight says I should have gone with a breakfast theme for last week, because the news was certainly on my side for a breakfast theme to last week. There was the study I mentioned on Wednesday, about the correlation between not eating breakfast and weight gain in adolescents, which Marion Nestle discussed a few days later over here on Eating Liberally. (more…)
Quick updates! 26 March 2008 9:13 am
Posted by Tracy in : politics, breakfast, nutrition, pictures, Morning Glory, news, health, books , add a commentFirst, I finally added this week’s Morning Glory specials to Monday’s post. More on that in a bit.
Second, Google Analytics says almost none of you read my open letter to Keith Knight, but that’s okay, because the man himself did, and even wrote me a nice comment which completely made my day, so yay!
Finally, a little rant about yesterday’s annoying food, nutrition, and health news. (more…)
