Monkey Monday turns into a belated Paul Newman appreciation. 6 October 2008 9:15 pm
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, monkeys, news, vegetarian , 1 comment so farHey, so I’m not dead in a ditch, but I don’t have access to an unsecured wireless network at home anymore. Instead I can only get online at school, and wouldn’t you know, I have a tendency to do homework there. But! In my various and sundry online readings (some homework-related, others not), I found out that October 1 is World Vegetarian Day, which kicks off World Vegetarian Month. So all the news about scary mystery meat was a perfect lead-in to that. Then right after I finished my post, Umbra had some more advice about eating less meat over at Grist. Sweet!
In other news, (more…)
Monkey Monday: so much mystery meat! 29 September 2008 8:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : food safety, consumerism, food snobbery, ingredients, mystery meat, meat, monkeys, news, health, advice, politics, Marion Nestle , 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…)
Monkey Monday: food irradiation, breakfast cereal, and more! 8 September 2008 1:46 pm
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, breakfast, food safety, good news, New York, random, monkeys, politics, Marion Nestle, books, school, news, milk, restaurants , add a commentUm, not necessarily in that order. Breakfast first, right? Right. Here goes. I had cereal for breakfast for the first time in a very long time today. Not oatmeal (it’s still way too hot for that), Tracy granola with yogurt, like I love, but something more in the muesli genre (hand-me-down free food from my parents) with milk. Turns out this was a bad idea, one which reminded me why I quit eating cold breakfast cereal. I’m just not a big fan of milk, unless it’s transformed in combination with something delicious, like tea or ice cream ingredients. (I’ll make an exception in the case of hot and fresh chocolatey baked goods, and tomato soup. For some reason I really love the contrast between a glass of cold milk and the savory acidity of hot tomato soup. But I digress.) If grains are going to be soggy, I want them warm, and soaked in delicious stir-fry sauce or something — old milk doesn’t count. So I was still hungry after forcing myself to finish the sad little bowl of milk-soaked oats and whatever. All told, cold breakfast cereal is still not my favorite: anything besides granola leaves much to be desired.
In other news of the disappointing, today the Ethicurean reminded me that the FDA now allows irradiation of spinach and lettuce. (more…)
So, um, no new posts this week and maybe the next. 16 August 2008 7:56 am
Posted by Tracy in : random, travel, news , add a commentWe got the keys to our new apartment yesterday and are about to move over there with a Honda Element-full of suitcases and cats. If you know my cell phone number, that’s the best way to reach me until internet is set up (although hey, I’m in New York now, and there’s wireless even at freaking Burger King, so I should be checking email fairly often.) Whee!
Foto Friday: words in pictures 8 August 2008 10:21 am
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, good news, events, travel, pictures, meta, news, friends , 1 comment so farWordle is a shiny applet that takes a big list of words and arranges them into a pretty collage-thing based in part on the frequency words appear (users can mess with the fonts and colors and tweak layouts). It’s a fascinating game, and yesterday I spent a very long time giving it all the tags I’ve ever used on TracyFood posts, with the following result (finally saved a few minutes ago, after lots and lots of the aforementioned tweaking):
Click through for a larger version; I think it’s pretty awesome. But another awesome thing happened yesterday, (more…)
