Hungry Tracy redux: eating local 20 April 2007 9:27 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,cooking,eating,environment,eugene,garden,hungry planet,identity,local food,school,seasonality,tea , 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…)
Recipe: Whole wheat no-knead bread (for Liz) 25 January 2007 11:28 am
Posted by Tracy in : baking,cooking,eating,friends,hungry planet,recipes,tea,vegan , 5 commentsSorting my Hungry Tracy data into food groups and counting what kinds of food I ate most frequently (see here) was useful for a lot of reasons, much more than just writing down the daily food logs. My very first observation (a suspicion confirmed even from just writing down the food logs) was that I sure do drink a lot of tea. If tea had calories, it might well be my superfood. (I suspect that there are people out there who drink soft drinks like I drink tea, in which case their superfood is high fructose corn syrup, which could go a long way towards explaining the industrialized world’s weird epidemic of obesity masking malnutrition. But I digress.) Instead, it turns out that my superfood is probably bread, and in particular homemade whole-wheat no-knead bread, of which I ate an estimated 24 servings during my Hungry Tracy week last December — more servings, in fact, than of any one kind of tea! I have more to say about the results of my Hungry Tracy project and my eating habits in general, but in the meantime, to celebrate the fact that I have a superfood after all (one that is in fact a delicious Tracy food indeed, and to my ever-loving surprise, even vegan), and because my dear friend Liz emailed me last week to ask about it, here is the recipe for that bread: (more…)
Hungry Tracy: Food log summary 23 January 2007 12:55 pm
Posted by Tracy in : anthropology,books,cheese,CSA,eating,hungry planet,soup,tea , add a commentHungry Tracy? What’s that all about?
One Week’s Food in December
I tried to sort everything recorded in my daily food logs into the categories defined in Hungry Planet but didn’t use exact measurements. Numbers in parentheses behind an item indicate the number of times said item was eaten, or a rough guess of how many portions of that item were eaten (note how I’m not even trying to count servings, just to give myself a little extra wiggle room for the amounts I didn’t measure even a little). As in the book, brand names are in italics; I think many of the items marked with a brand name could probably be considered prepared foods, as could noodles and even frozen peas. You’ll see plenty of notes in my “data” (boy is that ever a loosely-defined term here) about these and other ambiguities. Just about all the fresh vegetables are from our CSA farm, Groundwork Organics. (We got the flyer for their 2007 summer CSA just a few days ago, and it is like a beautiful ray of hope for these dark, cold times of forgetting to eat our vegetables because they’re not overflowing our fridge and our garden.) (more…)
Superfood? 18 January 2007 4:52 pm
Posted by Tracy in : anthropology,Derrick Jelliffe,eating,hungry planet,identity,Michael Pollan,vocabulary,Warren Belasco , add a commentOne concept that really stuck with me from my food and culture anthropology class last term is the idea of a “superfood”, which comes from a hierarchical food classification system described by Derrick B. Jelliffe. I’m bringing it up now because it was important to my thinking about my Hungry Tracy project. (more…)
Hungry Tracy: Individual food logs 17 January 2007 8:36 am
Posted by Tracy in : cheese,eating,hungry planet,soup,tea , 1 comment so farThis is really boring (and made me really self-conscious to write), so you’re completely excused from reading it. It’s all in one entry to make it easier to skip to something else.
