Music to cook by. 4 September 2010 1:45 am
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,cooking,eugene,friends,fun,Morning Glory,nyc,oregon,random,silly,vegan,vegetarian,writing , add a commentThis post is for the fabulous Chiara, who did one of those silly Facebook (I almost wrote LiveJournal) equivalents of a chain letter where you’re supposed to write down 15 albums in 15 minutes, albums that will stick with you forever, etc. As I started to respond, I arbitrarily tried to restrict myself to no more than one album by any given artist, or I would have gotten to Bowie and used up like six albums right there, and likewise with TMBG and Dar and Dan Bern… you get the idea. Also as I was writing I realized I was thinking in particular about music that is good to cook by, and also that it was making me want to write a TracyFood post on that subject for the first time in—urgh, I’m not even going to look. The point is: here is a list of albums which I have found kept me particularly excellent company in kitchens over the years, annotated where I wanted. Also, Chiara is awesome. (more…)
Monkey Monday: food politics in action edition 26 April 2010 12:37 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,economics,food snobbery,geekery,monkeys,nyc,photos,pictures,politics,random , 2 commentsSo on Friday I was on my way to a lecture by a possible NYU Food Studies visiting prof (one of the ones I posted about last Tuesday, actually), when what should greet me at the end of my block but a Coca-Cola delivery truck with a banner on the back:
So close to home!
The fold in the top of the banner makes it hard to read, but the whole message is:
Governor Patterson’s beverage tax would increase the price on your favorite beverages up to 50%!
The last thing New Yorkers need is another tax.
and then there’s pictures of the aforementioned beverages, the name of the sponsoring group (New Yorkers Against Unfair Taxes), and web, Facebook, and Twitter links to said organization. (more…)
Food Systems talks at NYU Steinhardt this week 20 April 2010 7:44 am
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,economics,events,geekery,nyc,school,WFPA , add a commentCross-posted from the Wagner Food Policy Alliance blog, where I hope to be a more regular contributor.
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Hi there, fellow food wonks! I just found out about a few upcoming events that might be of interest. Both are happening at the NYU Food Studies department, on the 10th floor of the Steinhardt building. Update: Please email Jennifer Berg (jennifer.berg@nyu.edu) if you plan to attend. Thanks!
Carolyn Dimitri, Economic Research Service, USDA, “Perspectives on local food usage in Maryland schools”
Wednesday 21 April, 12:30-1:15 PM
35 West 4th Street, Room 1078
According to the email I got about this event, “Dr. Dimitri is an economist whose research focuses on organic markets. This talk is part of a new project on local foods in Maryland K-12 schools.” I for one have an enormous nerd crush on the USDA ERS, so I’m really excited about this talk and hope I can attend (and write a follow-up post about it). Unfortunately I don’t have as many details about the next one:
Allison Hayes-Conroy, Visiting Scholar, Bryn Mawr College
Friday 23 April, 11:30 AM-12:15 PM
35 West 4th Street, Room 1078
All I know about this talk is that “Dr. Hayes-Conroy is a geographer whose work focuses on gender and markets,” but a quick Google search about her reveals her affiliation with Bryn Mawr’s Growth and Structure of Cities department, so maybe she’ll have a thing or two to say for those of us interested in planning?
Anyway, just thought I’d pass those along. Post a comment if you’re going!
Monkey Monday Macaron Ride Report! 23 March 2010 1:26 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cookies,eating,fun,monkeys,nyc,photos,pictures,random,silly,travel , add a commentOk! Very quick summary:
Macaron Day NYC 2010: what I rode; here’s the interactive version.
For more details (and pictures), read on! (more…)
Friday Fun! 19 March 2010 7:18 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,cookies,dessert,eating,fun,nyc,random,silly , 3 commentsHello readers! I know, long time no nothing. Such are the ways of Spring Break (wooo!) even when the earlier part of this week was mostly spent hiding from positively Oregonian-winter weather, and I maybe could have been writing instead of just watching trash TV on Hulu. But no. Spring Break! Woooo!
Today, however, the weather was lovely, and I was positively energetic, which I proved by going on my first New York City bike ride of the season. How is this at all related to TracyFood? Well, I’ll tell you: I needed this bike ride as a test drive (so to speak) for a ridiculous plan.
You see, tomorrow is Macaron Day, and a bunch of NYC bakeries are giving away said delicious treats to celebrate (and do a little self-promotion, but hey: free treats!) And because I am ridiculous, and because the weather is just that lovely, I got it in my head that maybe I could ride my bike from bakery to bakery, collect macarons from all seventeen participating locations (and if I were indeed going to eat seven almond merengue sandwiches with delicious sweet filling, I would need the bike ride to prevent myself from spontaneously combusting on account of all that sugar. So here’s how I schemed. (more…)
