Monkey Monday: public service announcement edition. 10 March 2008 5:55 pm
Posted by Tracy in : advice, cooking, health, kitchen mishaps, meat, news, nutrition, soup , add a commentHappy Daylight Savings Hangover Monday to all my U.S. readers, and happy feeling our envy to everyone else. While I’m mentioning the bad news first: I’m not revealing travel plans for any international adventures today, and there are sadly still no guitars. Instead, I want to share a few useful morsels of information brought to me by my friendly local Internet (also yours!)
First, the post that gave me the idea for this entry’s theme: A Public Service Announcement From Your Body by Peggy Nature, brought to my attention by the ever-awesome Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose. (more…)
In which I get all wonky about meat. 19 February 2008 10:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : Marion Nestle, Morning Glory, agriculture, eating, food safety, health, meat, news, politics , add a commentSo yesterday I was too busy writing about or experiencing technical difficulties to comment on the really big food news of the day, namely largest ground beef recall in U.S. history by Hallmark/Westland, the meatpacking company whose horrific animal handling practices were exposed in a video by an undercover Humane Society activist on January 30. (Full confession: I’m not linking to the now-infamous video because I haven’t watched it yet, because I’m sort of a coward like that. On the other hand, I have seen Chris Cosentino’s photo essay about humane cow slaughter and still managed to eat beef afterwards, albeit not from a scary Cowschwitz like Hallmark/Westland).
So. Here’s the Tracy-take on the biggest ground beef recall in U.S. history: it’s a symbolic gesture, and not even a particularly good one. (more…)
Monkey Monday: Presidents Day edition. 18 February 2008 11:53 am
Posted by Tracy in : eating, health, monkeys, nepal, news, pictures, travel , 3 commentsYou know what’s startling? When you’re doing the dishes and part of the faucet breaks off in your hand and you get shot in the chest with a big jet of water. And yes, I am speaking from personal experience. This was yesterday morning, and I barely had the presence of mind to turn off the water after yelping my surprise such that Peter came flying in from the other room to my rescue (not that there was anything he could do except say “Whoa” at the broken thing). I spent the next half hour or so sort of blinking and changing out of many soaked layers of clothing. Then we went to the hardware store for a new faucet, because although the old one was under warranty, I didn’t have a receipt or proof of purchase or anything, so alas. (We kept the paperwork for the new one just in case, you betcha.) So today I’m still feeling like an amateur plumbing badass, because while Peter took the old faucet apart, I did most of the installation of the new one, because I fit under the sink better. Yay competence! (more…)
Monkey Monday: sheer determination edition. 28 January 2008 7:23 am
Posted by Tracy in : books, health, recipes, school , add a commentGreetings from the far side of an all-nighter, readers! For some reason, sheer determination and staying up all night was just what it took for me to write a five-page critical journal on the first third of the readings for my food and gender anthropology class. The all-important news is: It’s done! Woo! The rest of my news items will be brief, a way of clearing other random detritus from my brain while I decide whether I need to nap and shower before class (yes) and how much (um, that depends…) There will be scatterbrained discussion of my recent non-class readings, and some cookery discoveries, complete with links. (more…)
Nepal Trip 2007: Day 15: Rest Day in Namche Bazaar 26 October 2007 9:02 am
Posted by Tracy in : health, nepal, travel , 1 comment so farI believe I mentioned yesterday that it would be good for us to rest up in Namche Bazaar while our bodies manufacture red blood cells like crazy, yes?
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This post was written and scheduled for automagical posting in the week before I left on this crazy adventure. I hope to write many more posts about the trip — you know, with more actual details and pictures and stuff — but for now this is all we’ve got while my intergoogle access is all kinds of sporadic during my travels from October 9 until November 6.
