Twitter Tuesday: urrrrrrrrrgh edition. 29 November 2011 6:33 pm
Posted by Tracy in : food safety,food snobbery,news,random,Twitter Tuesday , add a commentOk, so I saw an oddly fitting tweet not long after forcing myself up this morning (it was still morning, though only by an hour or so, and I probably could have slept more but I had enough trouble getting to sleep at an earlyish hour last night that I decided not to push my luck — or my ability to breathe, which is unreliable thanks to upper respiratory ickiness):
dcorsetto Danielle Corsetto
Auugh I am going to be so sick tomorrow, I can just feel it. The good news is, I’m certain it’ll make my #TMITuesday even more exciting.
I will spare you the TMI, readers, but suffice it to say that I whined way too soon yesterday. Oooof. Anyway. S-s-s-somethings from the Twitter: (more…)
Monkey Monday: just a little news 28 November 2011 5:56 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,economics,meta,monkeys,news,random , add a commentUrgh, readers. I have the post-holiday-weekend plague, in the form of a cold that makes me want to do nothing more strenuous than lie around feeling sorry for myself, with the only occasional exertion to pour myself the next cup of ginger ale (Schweppes, not even the good stuff) or tea. So today’s post is pretty random, an even more biased sample of the weekend’s food-related New York Times articles, and something I saw on Tumblr. Coming up later this week: Twitter Tuesday, a more complete turducken Wordless Wednesday if I can swing it, and then some well-earned rest. This NaBloPoMo thing has been quite the adventure! Anyway, on with the post: (more…)
Monkey Monday: Thanksgiving week continues. 21 November 2011 11:42 pm
Posted by Tracy in : comics,cooking,diet stress is a health hazard,eating,geekery,health,monkeys,news,nutrition,random,science , add a commentSo I got into the Thanksgiving spirit early with my epistolography yesterday, and I’ve got a few extra gratitude-themed posts planned for later this week (one of which is foreshadowed by a high-larious comic hidden in a link in this very entry!)
I feel like I’m turning into the NaBloPoMo homestretch, and that means I have to be extra-bonus careful not to fall into complacency, especially at the end of this week when I’ll be all distracted by holiday family action. Today I have been all distracted in general but a highlight of that distraction was that I now know I can make pierogies! This changes everything! Ok, not really, but (more…)
Monkey Monday: new books and more 14 November 2011 4:53 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,books,consumerism,eating,geekery,news,science , add a commentAlmost halfway through NaBloPoMo, definitely feeling the crunch on my brain, even for short attention span theater like Monkey Mondays traditionally are. So today I’m keeping it short, with some excitement about new books, and a bit of snark-rant about a news item that made me go “durrrrrrrrr.” Here we go. I’ll start with the snark and end on the happy book geekery notes.
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Last Wednesday a New York Times “Well” blog post appeared in my Facebook feed: Tired of Feeling the Burn? Low-Acid Diet May Help and I reposted it (more…)
Another Twitter Tuesday! 8 November 2011 11:24 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen,diet stress is a health hazard,events,fangirl,fast food,food safety,food snobbery,health at every size,media,meta,news,Twitter Tuesday , add a commentHey, so like I confessed yesterday, I really didn’t know what to blog about today, only then suddenly, to my surprise and delight, the Twitters, which I kinda sorta really hadn’t been watching since last Tuesday, came through for me in a big way. Check these out! First and foremost, my former classmate Shanti with news that makes me want to make horrible puns about sticky messes:
Shanti Elise Prasad (@shantielise)
If you eat honey, this may blow your mind. Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey… foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-…
I’m having a little trouble wrapping my head around this story, personally, because as far as I can tell from the article, the definition of “honey” being argued about here is whether or not (for example) the sweet golden goo in the plastic bear has pollen in it. But the article’s scandal-monger-y lede:
More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn’t exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News.
really rubs me the wrong way. Because with the possible exception of some wild-caught fish, pretty much no animal product sold in U.S. grocery stores is exactly what the animals in question produce. It’s all processed one way or another. (more…)
