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Monkey Monday: real monkeys and more! 19 April 2010 11:07 am

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First things first, I know this doesn’t really have anything to do with food but it makes me incredibly happy so I’m posting it wherever I can:

If you like that, you will also like this (it’s really quick, I promise!)

And now, for something less completely different. (more…)

Monkey (bread) Wednesday! 10 February 2010 8:35 pm

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Update, 8:45 PM: I just realized that this is my 500th TracyFood post. Congratulations to me, even if this is kind of a silly quick one.

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So last month I put out a call to Facebook and Twitter asking what kind of monkey bread to make (with this article‘s recipes in mind): buttery plain, garlic-herb, and cinnamon walnut. In the end the voters wanted garlic-herb, but my sweet tooth won the day, and I have pictures to prove it. (Garlic-herb lovers, scroll all the way down for your favorite, which I made a few weeks later.)

Check that beauty out.

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Thank you Thursday: geeking out on government data 19 November 2009 2:13 pm

Posted by Tracy in : diet stress is a health hazard,fun,geekery,health,health at every size,media,meta,random,reading,silly,work,writing , View Comments

So today I ran across a survey on the CDC website while I was doing some research for my food policy final project (on how maybe health at every size is a better goal than weight loss, or obesity prevention, weight control, “healthy eating” or any other euphemism for making ourselves miserable about being irresponsible, fat, unhealthy failures at life, despite the fact that life, y’know, is not always easy, and there’s plenty of reasons we might be unwell besides the stuff we can try to control if we have the means, which not everybody does). I had a surprising amount of fun with that survey, and I copied some of the questions and my answers to prove it (there were questions about whether I might blog about what I was finding on the websites, and then I knew for sure I would have to go all meta). But before I get to that, today’s Thank You:

Dear CDC and USDA Economic Research Service and other awesome organizations doing public policy research and putting it online where I can geek out over it,

Thank you. Keep up the good work, and please give me a job someday.

Love,
-Tracy

And now, on to the survey silliness. (more…)

Monkey Monday: Julie & Julia edition. 8 September 2009 2:32 pm

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So happy day after Labor Day, readers! My holiday weekend featured a fair amount of baking, which I hope to write about later on this week, as well as tasty dinners both higher end (Aroma) and low (all hail my local Cuban diner! Es muy delicioso!) Also, I finally saw Julie & Julia this holiday weekend, and my brain is still full, so that’s what today’s post is all about.

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I’m in full agreement with everyone else loving the hell out of Meryl Streep playing, as Salon reviewer Stephanie Zacharek put it, not Julia Child but “something both more elusive and more truthful… our idea of Julia Child.” Also, mad props to Stanley Tucci for managing to share the screen with, well, a force of nature portraying another force of nature, somehow in such a way that I’m still remembering and appreciating his performance days later. Well played, sir. (more…)

Monkey Monday: plans and schemes. 24 August 2009 9:59 am

Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,cooking,eating,events,fangirl,meta,news,nyc,pictures,vegan,vegetarian , View Comments

So I haven’t been blogging very consistently these past few months (to put it mildly), but I think I’ve come up with a bit of a solution: more picture posts! This solves both the “not blogging much” problem by also solving the “enormously behind on writing about all the food pictures I’ve taken in, well, a long time” and the “must strain to write more than a paragraph on the same subject” problems. Brilliant! Or so I hope. Anyway. Here’s a few TracyFood-worthy odds and ends from my recent readings.

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First, it’s been awhile since I’ve given props to Isa “The PPK” Chandra, but her most recent post was super-awesome for writing and cooking inspiration both. I mean, c’mon. Tempeh Helper: Just Like Mom Used To Never Make? Brilliant. Also, her chickpea-noodle soup was pretty much the best thing ever while I was rocking a gnarly cold this weekend. So yay Isa! Here is a picture of a recent meal I made from your awesome book Vegan with a Vengeance, which I shamelessly plug every chance I get:

Jerk seitan with coconut rice and garlicky collard greens.