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Foto Friday: back to Nepal 12 September 2008 8:43 am

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I know, you thought I’d forgotten all about the Nepal picture project, and to be honest, for a while there, I thought I’d forgotten all about it, too. But New York’s American Museum of Natural History is food for Tracy nostalgia, and last week Peter and I had a visit from an out-of-town friend who provided me with all the excuse I needed to revisit the dinosaurs of my childhood. Hot diggety have those ever been updated! (Bear with me; I’ll bring this ramble back around to Nepal soon.) Not so very updated but still impressive were all the dioramas, which, as Abi (the aforementioned out-of-town friend) pointed out, are sort of a dying art form but which look very different once you think about all the work someone has to do to create and maintain them. I’d never thought about it that way before, but it made me consider those darkened halls of stuffed and mounted animals in a whole new (if dim) light. The displays of world peoples, however, were still just weird — even weirder now that I’ve seen more of the parts of the world that they purport to represent.

Which brings me to the Hall of Asian Peoples, where I could not find a single reference to Nepal. Lots about India, China, and even Tibet, to the point where I wondered when the displays had been created, and whether Nepal was on some kind of anthropological blacklist then. Next time I go back I’ll try to take notes on the exhibits and try to figure out where they fit on the Tibet vs. China timeline as I know it — they certainly seemed to represent a culture which I’ve learned think of as extremely endangered and better preserved on the Nepali side of the Himalayas. But I digress. The whole “no Nepal in the Hall of Asian Peoples” phenomenon was so weird that it made me want to get back to my long-neglected picture-posting project. So here I go. (more…)

Cooking for friends, part X: dal bhaat with Liz, Jason, and Ryan 21 May 2008 6:16 am

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Cooking for friends is one of my favorite things to do in the whole wide world. So when I made plans to visit Liz and Jason and meet my new favorite two-month-old Ryan, I maybe kinda sorta browbeat them into letting me make them dinner, since that’s how I roll. Then, because I’m kind of a jerk, I asked, “So what do you want for dinner?” Realizing that this was kind of a bad move, I suggested adventure cooking, teaming up on a new recipe, or maybe dal bhaat as a sure thing kind of backup plan. Liz wisely opted for the latter, and a delicious time was had by all. (more…)

Foto Friday: Holla Back edition. 25 April 2008 7:07 pm

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So to quote the late, great Bill Hicks, “Boy, I’m in a mood.” What’s more, if you follow my Flickr photostream, you may have noticed that it’s sort of dried up on the Nepal trip front. There’s a reason for that, and today I am harnessing the power of my mood to confront it. If you’ve come to TracyFood for sunshine and happiness, I’m afraid today is not your day. Tomorrow I’ll be all lighthearted and liveblogging America’s Test Kitchen, but (more…)

The weekly specials menu and other pictures. 1 April 2008 1:38 am

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Ack! It wasn’t April yet, but I was a fool last week, when I was responsible enough to pick up and scan and post a copy of the latest Morning Glory organic specials menu on Friday, but then forgot to say anything about it around here. Oop. Anyway, here it is:

As of closing time on Monday, we hadn’t run out of any ingredients, and the special pancake made a delicious shift meal, oh yes. In other TracyFood on Flickr news, I just finished posting my pictures of Mani Rimdu in Tengboche (the official site has gone to their 2008 information already). It’s been almost five months since I got back from the trip, and it feels like I’ve entered the picture-posting (and captioning) homestretch. Whee! Here’s some highlights (more…)

Just a bit more Nepal nostalgia. 11 March 2008 8:13 am

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So one public service announcement I meant to make yesterday is that I posted a few more Nepal trip pictures to my Flickr pages over the weekend. I kept going back to look at this one, so I decided to leave it in a prominent place for a few days (and now it’s here!)