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Foto Friday: belated pizza edition. 22 May 2010 1:06 pm

Posted by Tracy in : eugene,oregon,pictures,pizza,potatoes,random,restaurants,vegan,vegetarian , View Comments

I was on a posting roll this week, readers, but then yesterday I got distracted and completely forgot to post the best which I had been saving for last: pictures of two specialty pies from Pizza Research Institute in Eugene, OR. We got them the week of Peter’s graduation, which means I’ve been meaning to post about them, and PRI, for not quite a year now. Whoops. But better late than never, right? Right. So here goes.

Don’t worry, there are bigger versions of these pictures later.

Some of you may be asking, “Wait, Tracy, Pizza Research Institute?” Why yes, dear readers unfamiliar with Eugene, that would be the establishment with the unforgettable slogan “Tomorrow’s Pizza Today.” (more…)

Thank you Thursday: Lentil salad with feta. 20 May 2010 9:21 pm

Posted by Tracy in : cheese,consumerism,food snobbery,photos,pictures,seasonality,summer,sundance,thank you Thursday,vegetarian , View Comments

Let me show you a little composition I like to call: “Lentil Salad, F*** Yeah!”

That’s my favorite lentil salad, on a bed of green leaf lettuce and topped with feta cheese. Not just any feta, though, but the nigh-legendary Bulgarian feta. Let me explain. (more…)

Monkey Monday: I made this. 3 May 2010 11:43 pm

Posted by Tracy in : economics,environment,geekery,health,monkeys,pictures,politics,school,sustainability , View Comments

I surprised myself today by producing not one but two diagrams for my final paper on food policy for urban and metropolitan regions. One of them even helped me organize a whole host of food policy issues according to a definition of sustainability based on health, the environment, and economics, like so:

Sustainable urban-metropolitan food policy, sort of.

The big breakthrough was the realization that sustainability and its environmental, economic, and health aspects are not food policy goals so much as they are common unifying themes shared across many food system goals and the policies and programs designed to pursue them, if that makes any sense. Anyway, that diagram helped me do a pretty decent presentation in class this afternoon, despite my weak chalkboard-fu and the fact that I hadn’t finished the paper yet. The first six pages are really solid, and I’m actually look forward to doing more on that project, even as I put it on hold to do the final for my food processing and industrialization class.

I’ll be fine if I just breathe.

Also, I had a fantastic sea scallop, fava bean, and rhubarb appetizer at Braeburn tonight. Nom.

Bed now! And way less coffee, iced or otherwise, for me tomorrow. G’night!

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 , View Comments

So 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…)

Monkey Monday: in praise of awesomeness 5 April 2010 11:52 pm

Posted by Tracy in : baking,cooking,dessert,eating,meat,monkeys,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures , View Comments

What kind of awesomeness, you ask? Well, mostly Peter’s awesomeness, because that’s what I have pictures to prove. (You’ll have to take my word for having made these super-delicious hash browns for dinner tonight, albeit with a mix of mostly Russet Burbanks in addition to the recommended Yukon Golds, since them’s were the taters we had in the house. Also I topped the potatoliciousness with poached eggs, and we had homemade hot cross buns on the side, but again: no pictures. Sorry about that.) Back to why Peter is awesome.

Despite its being almost painfully beautiful out yesterday, I forced myself down to NYU’s Bobst Library to work on the research paper for my food industrialization and processing class (due Wednesday, not that I’m avoiding it by writing this or anything). Five to eight pages on the science, technology, and social history of microwave popcorn? Yeah, I can do that, but I’d rather be playing outside. ANYWAY. I’d thawed out frozen fruit for rhubarb custard pie filling (my plan was to do the more-fruit-less-sugar variation, but I didn’t have enough rhubarb, so I added some strawberries), and made (but not baked) crust, which Peter had gotten rolled out by the time I reluctantly left for research-ville. Maybe, I hoped to myself, I could come home to pie, and then we could make those homemade gyros I’d been thinking of as our Easter lamb….

But no! When I got home, not only was the pie baked, but Peter was almost done making the gyros! So awesome! Check them out: (more…)