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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 , 5 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…)

What I’m up to: awesome weekends. 26 February 2010 11:30 pm

Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,eating,events,fangirl,friends,fun,movies,not even vegetarian,nyc,photos,pictures,pizza,random,restaurants,reviews,school , 1 comment so far

So this weekend Peter’s out of town for macho male bonding stuff which I sincerely hope does not involve getting buried by the snowicane or whatever I’m supposed to call this mess of wet and cold slushing everything up all over the place for the snowiest NYC February on record, wow (shouts out to Ansley for that fun fact, and also a pretext for delicious, delicious lunch at Veselka this afternoon, nom nom nom). But seriously, just look at the poor planters at our building’s entrance, for monkeys’ sake:

I think the super’s whole family has been worked keeping that path clear these past 36-odd hours.

Anyway. I have two excellent reasons to brave the frozen wilds of New York City this weekend, and I am going to tell you all about them, starting… now.

The Foodprint Project

To be perfectly honest, I’m not 100% sure what The Foodprint Project is, but there are so many awesome people involved that I cannot wait to be a part of it any way I can. And oh darn, hearing awesome people talk about the art and culture and politics of urban food systems and more? Geez, it’s like exactly what I came to grad school for, only free and I get to design my own homework! So that’s tomorrow, Saturday, February 27, from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., at Studio-X, 180 Varick St., Suite 1610, New York, NY 10014.

Just Food’s CSA in NYC conference!

Ok, I do know what this event is about, which means the conference should be pretty freaking awesome. Community Supported Agriculture is the answer, doncha know, and I am eager to learn more about how it works in NYC and how I can help, because: awesome.

So that’s my plans for this weekend, but last weekend was pretty excellent, too, so (more…)

Monkey Monday: cooking and reading 4 January 2010 3:21 pm

Posted by Tracy in : cooking,hot mess,kitchen mishaps,monkeys,not even vegetarian,pasta,photos,pictures,pizza,random , 1 comment so far

As always, I am hopelessly behind on about a million things I want to read (at least more than a thousand in Google Reader alone, for instance) but I wanted to share a few fun things I’ve drifted past while going with the “too much information” flow. I will begin and end, however, with stuff I’ve cooked recently, because I am so not even a little bit modest about the awesomeness.

Stuff I’ve cooked recently

Check out this fabulous penne alla vodka we made with duck prosciutto (made by a Columbia Greenmarket vendor whose name I cannot remember). So delicious!

Also, I kinda dig the refracted view of Peter’s plate through the glass there.

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Pizza party! In pictures! 31 March 2009 3:23 pm

Posted by Tracy in : baking,cooking,geekery,pictures,pizza,school , 2 comments

Today I was hoping to finish and post a piece about why I should not have gone to my friendly neighborhood Fairway to research foods marketed to kids for my nutrition class, but my brain is still too fried from writing the assignment. On Sunday night, Peter joked that I was going all “Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu” — and that was well before he beat me to bed by two hours because I could not stop writing stuff like “this product is sold less by health and more by cuteness, with stuff like whole grains and sensible solutions sort of afterthoughts, maybe for people who need to justify the purchases to themselves” and

Why does milk drinking have to be made more fun? Leaving aside the whole “milk is for babies” issue, and that for all the conventional wisdom — I mean, marketing hype — about how kids can’t grow big and strong without milk or whatever, can’t a glass of milk just be a glass of milk anymore?

You get the idea. Also, I love that Onion article so hard. But not as much as I love pizza! Check it out: