Saying goodbye to Eugene. 25 August 2009 7:08 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,CSA,eating,eggs,eugene,events,fangirl,friends,fun,garden,good news,local food,meat,Morning Glory,news,not even vegetarian,nyc,oregon,seasonality,summer,writing , 2 commentsI wrote this piece for an assignment on personal essays and memoir in my food writing class last fall, and it isn’t exactly true anymore — I have had a few more last Saturdays in Eugene since the one described here. It’s still emotionally true, perhaps more so than ever now, and it’s appropriate, since Peter is saying goodbye to Eugene this morning and coming home to New York City, at last, with his shield, not on it. Congratulations, love. See you soon.
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My last Saturday in Eugene, Oregon was pretty well perfect, thanks to a chance encounter with some carrot greens. I spotted them in the totebags of a pedestrian on the bike path south of the Lane County fairgrounds. She was on her way home from Saturday Market; Peter and I were riding our tandem to coffee after a morning of blueberry picking with Kevin and Laurel. It was August second, and thanks to those greens, I remembered it was our last chance to go to Saturday Market before our move. So after coffee, pastries, and a stumper of a New York Times crossword puzzle, we said goodbye to Kevin and Laurel. They rode south, and Peter and I went north, to our last Saturday Market for a long time. (more…)
Monkey Monday: Baconmania 2008 8 December 2008 12:58 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,friends,meat,meta,not even vegetarian , 1 comment so farSo I keep reading that the Internet as a whole is somewhat obsessed with bacon, but I seem to roll in the wrong geek circles to hear about it most of the time, which is fine by me, honestly. (I’ve been pretty burned out on bacon since I worked at the Glenwood, where the opening shift started by cooking off a 25-pound case of bacon — and that was for a slow day. On weekends, the prep was two cases, and sometimes we still ran out. I blame the Atkins diet, but I digress.) However, in November, the Internet bacon obsession was harder to ignore, and fabulously lampooned by the webcomic Nobody Scores on 24 November of 24 November. Hee! Anyway, here’s a few other bacon bits (sorry) that caught my eye in the past month. (more…)
Monkey Monday: so much mystery meat! 29 September 2008 8:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : advice,consumerism,food safety,food snobbery,health,ingredients,Marion Nestle,meat,monkeys,mystery meat,news,politics , 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…)
Do me a favor, readers. 4 September 2008 4:52 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,eating,geekery,history,meat,not even vegetarian,people,politics,vegetarian , 1 comment so farI need your help.
Together, we can destroy the myth that Hitler was a vegetarian.
Seriously. I know it’s a funny thing to talk about and all — even Eddie Izzard gave it a go in the otherwise entirely brilliant Dress to Kill
I’m bringing this up now because (more…)
Monkey Monday: random RSS recipes edition 21 July 2008 6:15 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,meat,monkeys,people,random,recipes , add a commentI remembered what else I meant to post about on Saturday night! The wonderful randomness that my RSS feeds bring me, let me share them with you!
First, there was Warren Ellis on cooking steak (hint: “Man cook meat with fire.”) That was July 7. A day later, he clarified his position somewhat: (more…)
