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A Thank You Thursday — and here’s to many more. 9 April 2009 9:38 pm

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Thank You Thursdays are a regular feature over at Feministing, and this week I’m taking a page from their playbook to shout out to my awesome friends. Maybe it’s an early April thing with me, I don’t know, but you are all fabulous, each and every one of you. Anyway. Here are just a few recent specific examples of the awesomeness of my friends:

First of all, last Friday’s shout-out to Wednesday dinner is sort of an early entry in the “yay my friends rule” category, well worth a mention. We’re up to twelve straight weeks of collaborative gastronomic goodness, and counting — so awesome. Go team!

Next, I started this week’s Monkey Monday post on a bit of a down note, and Cj stepped right up to read things in a more positive light. (more…)

CancerFood, part 3: more wisdoms from Christine 15 January 2009 11:22 am

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This is the third post in a series which started with Ask TracyFood: food and chemotherapy? Answer: Chris knows! and continued with CancerFood, part 2: you need Christine’s wisdoms bad. Today Today Chris has more specific food suggestions for surviving chemotherapy — both what to eat and how to eat it — as well as another round of general advice on living well when your body’s trying to kill you. (more…)

CancerFood, part 2: you need Christine’s wisdoms bad. 7 January 2009 7:51 am

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So last month my stupendously colossal badass friend Christine helped me write the first of a series of posts about food and chemotherapy. We started out with the basics: what her experience of chemo has been like, taking a holistic view of its mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual effects. Today we’ve got some more food-specific discussion to share, with a few chimings-in by Christine’s favorite Englishman, Kevin. Here goes…. (more…)

Ask TracyFood: food and chemotherapy? Answer: Chris knows! 16 December 2008 2:28 pm

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So a month ago, my friend Ed Parker wrote me a question:

Hello Tracy,

I have a friend whose father suffers from lack of appetite due to chemotherapy. I’m trying to get some menus together for him and wondering if you know of any websites or information reference to food and chemotherapy….

Thanks,

Eddie

While I don’t know a lot about nutrition, I probably know even less about cancer and chemotherapy. However, one of the greatest things I keep learning as I get older is that I don’t need to know everything — I just need to know how to ask people who know stuff I don’t. So, enter the guest post!

My friend Christine does know a thing or two about cancer and chemo both, so after reading Eddie’s message, I wrote some email, asked a bunch of questions, and got more answer than I can fit in one TracyFood entry. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting her wisdom in a few installments, and thinking of more questions to ask, in case it turns out we’re serious about writing a book like we keep talking about over instant messages. Here we go… (more…)

In case you missed it: New York magazine on female chefs and more (including Janeane Garofalo, aw yeah). 19 November 2007 2:06 pm

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Woo! Two posts in one day! I’m out of control! (Although actually, this is just a cunning ploy to make up for having missed last Wednesday’s post, and as soon as you’re not looking I’ll sneakily change the date on this entry to make it look like I’m not a flaky slackerbeast, but I digress. Anyway.)

For some reason, none of the food blogs on my long-neglected Google Reader mentioned New York magazine’s October 21 piece on the city’s few female top chefs, “A Woman’s Place?”; I read about it on Salon’s Broadsheet. But whatever; I’m just glad I found it. Food (especially cooking) and gender? I accept! (more…)