Foto Friday: introducing Lakshman (a Nepal flashback) 18 January 2008 6:43 pm
Posted by Tracy in : nepal, travel, pictures, hungry planet, eating , 1 comment so farWhen I put out my general “who wants a postcard?” call before the Nepal trip, Cj said something awesome like, “I don’t need a postcard, but bring back some good stories.” Here, then, is a little story about Lakshman, one of our amazing kitchen crew.
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This story takes place on October 15, our first real day of trekking, when we set out from the “Rumjatar Hilton” schoolyard and hit the trail through lush green fields of millet:
What I remember most about that morning was the climbing. (more…)
Just for comparison: one “normal” day’s food (no work, no locality restrictions) 26 April 2007 2:56 pm
Posted by Tracy in : work, Morning Glory, school, salad, breakfast, tea, local food, cheese, convenience, books, eating, anthropology, CSA, hungry planet, vegetarian, eugene, cooking , add a commentLike I mentioned on Tuesday, on work days there’s essentially no way I could stick to a local food diet, or any other except vegetarian, by virtue of the fact that Morning Glory is a meat-free zone (there’s even a little sticker next to the door that says so!) Still, I wrote down everything I ate on Monday and Tuesday for comparison to this weekend’s locavore experiment (in case maybe my food habits have changed dramatically since my original hungry Tracy experiment, and here’s what I ate on Tuesday: (more…)
Hungry Tracy eats local: observations, conclusions, and more. 24 April 2007 1:08 pm
Posted by Tracy in : garden, breakfast, local food, tea, seasonality, work, eating, hungry planet, Morning Glory, cooking , 1 comment so farQuick link: If you were amused by the meal names I sort of made up for my local food logs — “second dinner” and the like — you might want to read this article about the evolution of meal names and times from an old History Magazine. Fun for geeks, fun for geeks… and thanks to Peter for pointing it out. And now, back to my homework!
More than a day after the end of my eating local experiment, I’m still very much in “Hungry Tracy writes down everything she eats” mode: So far today I have eaten cottage cheese pancakes made with Nancy’s cottage cheese and Umpqua sour cream and Raynblest Farm happy chicken eggs and flour and baking powder and suchforth of unknown origin, fried in Umpqua butter and served with Apple Hill Farm applesauce and Danish Orchards blackberry jam. Also I had a little more than a cup of Wandering Goat organic and fair trade french roast coffee with Umpqua half and half and sugar of unknown origin. But Peter and I did the big dumb breakfast because James was visiting and it’s fun to show off for guests. On a more ordinary day we might have just had Tracy granola with Nancy’s yogurt or homemade no-knead bread with cheese. (more…)
Monkey Monday: “eat local” weekend food logs 23 April 2007 8:22 pm
Posted by Tracy in : seasonality, work, milk, school, monkeys, breakfast, America's Test Kitchen, tea, local food, environment, sustainability, hungry planet, CSA, eating, anthropology, eugene, responsibility, cheese, dessert, convenience, cooking , 2 commentsImportant finding number one: Quitting caffeine cold turkey is not for the faint of heart like me. I had a raging headache by around 2 PM Saturday and gave in and had some freaking tea already around 8 PM, after which sources report I was much less hellish to be around (and I will concede that it was much more pleasant to be me, oh yes). But! Aside from that tea and some salt and some cumin, everything else I ate this weekend was grown or manufactured in Oregon, with the exception of some russet potatoes from Washington, because I miscalculated the amount of spuds it would take to get me through the weekend. The single lamest part of the experiment (besides the whole wanting to kill everything for lack of caffeine) was that I got totally insanely possessive about my food, because there were so few things in the house that fit my (admittedly totally arbitrary) dietary parameters. The caffeine-withdrawal-induced crankiness almost certainly didn’t help with my food possessiveness, to put it mildly. Anyway. On to what I ate! (more…)
Hungry Tracy redux: eating local 20 April 2007 9:27 pm
Posted by Tracy in : seasonality, school, garden, local food, tea, environment, agriculture, eating, hungry planet, eugene, identity, cooking , 1 comment so farThink of me when you’re eating whatever you want this weekend; I’ll be overthinking all my meals even more than usual. For class! You see, I’m supposed to consume only food and drinks that have been “grown or processed locally.” (more…)
