From “Planting a Tree” 20 June 2007 7:00 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,garden,Michael Pollan,reviews , add a commentTracy is on vacation. You can read all about it at Van Boothe Tandem Adventures. Regularly-scheduled non-vacation TracyFood posts will be back on Monday, July 9. Meanwhile….
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Excerpt from Chapter 9 of Michael Pollan’s Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education (review started here) (more…)
Book review: “Second Nature” by Michael Pollan 19 June 2007 6:13 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,garden,identity,Michael Pollan,politics,reviews,school,seasonality , add a commentTracy is on vacation. You can read all about it at Van Boothe Tandem Adventures. Regularly-scheduled non-vacation TracyFood posts will be back on Monday, July 9. Meanwhile….
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From Second Nature by Michael Pollan:
Of course, a real green thumb would have done everything I did without having to think about it so much. But you have to start somewhere…. Only much later does it become second nature. Now, I get it — indeed, can no longer imagine not getting it — and from here on I’ll probably grow fine carrots without a moment’s reflection, no bigger a deal than riding a bike. So maybe that is what a green thumb is, a particular form of memory: a compendium of little stories that have been distilled to the point where the gardener can draw on their lessons without even thinking about it — the morals of these stories (most of which are about his own experiences, but some of which may be secondhand) are always at his fingertips.
Monkey Monday: remote-controlled vacation week edition! 18 June 2007 1:27 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,garden,Marion Nestle,meta,Michael Pollan,school , add a commentTracy is on vacation. You can read all about it at Van Boothe Tandem Adventures. Regularly-scheduled non-vacation TracyFood posts will be back on Monday, July 9. Meanwhile….
If you are reading this, it means I successfully set TracyFood up to automatically post a few entries I prepared in advance, which is pretty amazing if I do say so myself — both the fact that I had a few entries worth of writing to post, and the fact that I worked the WordPress ninjitsu requied to get them all set up and ready to rock while I’m out on my adventures in the Netherlands with Peter and the Pushmi-Pullyu. (more…)
Pollanization: an Urban Farm assignment, recycled for your reading pleasure (?) 22 May 2007 11:46 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,eating,Michael Pollan,school , add a commentSo last week for Urban Farm we got a list of Michael Pollan articles and the assignment to read one (of our choice) and write a one-page response, due last Thursday. Oh darn! I was momentarily tempted to cop out and recycle my response to “Unhappy Meals” or write about his more recent New York Times Magazine piece, “You Are What You Grow,” I decided to go with something I hadn’t read before, namely The Nation‘s “One Thing To Do About Food”. (I also finished Second Nature not long before the assignment was due, but I have much more than a page to write about that book.) Anyway. Here is what I wrote for class: (more…)
Monkey Monday: post-whirlwind trip edition 14 May 2007 11:59 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,convenience,eating,environment,Marion Nestle,Michael Pollan,monkeys,Morning Glory,restaurants , add a commentIn this edition of Monkey Monday, I will attempt to predict my entries for the coming week. Short version: lots and lots about my trip this weekend, including food logs because there’s nothing like traveling to shuffle the usual eating patterns, something about cookies because I still feel like I owe them to everybody at Morning Glory who made it possible for me to take the weekend off, a book review (probably Gary Paul Nabham’s Coming Home to Eat, which I returned to the library before my trip and started purging from my mind with the far superior Second Nature by Michael Pollan and Safe Food by Marion Nestle, both of which deserve their own reviews in good time), and a recipe, to keep back on my Sundance recipe adaptation plan.
Other weekend trip-type thoughts: (more…)
