In which subscribing to the food geek email list pays off bigtime. 16 July 2008 9:27 pm
Posted by Tracy in : events, geekery, school , 1 comment so farLook what I found in my inbox! Thanks, handy-dandy subscription to the Association for the Study of Food & Society (ASFS) listserv!
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Foodies on The Web: A Symposium on Food and New Media
(January 30 - 31, 2009
Boston University)
Many have argued that the Internet and the arrival of Web 2.0 (if there is such a thing) have created new forms of web-based community and interpersonal communications. This has extended into the world of food with the rise of popular food blogs, community-based websites such as Chowhound, Yelp and Citysearch, and other forms of information sharing and collaboration (e.g. YouTube, Wikis, TasteBook, and so forth).
The goal of this symposium is to explore how, if at all, these new technologies have changed the way people eat, cook, share recipes, decide where to have dinner, learn about nutrition, or simply think about food?
Topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to, (more…)
Monkey Monday: NYC trip, garden update, and more! 19 May 2008 8:58 am
Posted by Tracy in : garden, travel, fangirl, events, pictures, baking, eating, books, Marion Nestle, school, cooking , add a commentFirst and foremost, readers, if you like my banana bread recipe, I’d really appreciate your giving it (and me) some love over at Not Quite Nigella’s banana bread recipe collection roundup, which got an amazing 79 replies. If you don’t like my banana bread recipe, there might be something over there that’s more your speed — heck, there may be something over there for you even if you don’t usually like banana bread, the responses are that diverse! However, if you never, ever like banana bread, then you should under no circumstances click that last link, because there is nothing there for you. (But seriously, check it out. And vote for me!)
In other news, I had a great time in NYC, (more…)
Off to the East! 9 May 2008 10:26 am
Posted by Tracy in : travel, school, friends , 1 comment so farThe taxi to the airport should be here in half an hour, so of course I’ve got a lot of last-minute running around to do, but where better to freak out than the Internet? I’ll be in Jersey tonight through Tuesday morning, then in NYC until Saturday freaky early. Next week’s posts will, of course, be all kinds of travel-sporadic, and I’ll be back to my usual schedule of missing Thursdays on Monday 19 May.
Chock full of randomness! 29 April 2008 7:16 am
Posted by Tracy in : news, monkeys, school, dessert, meta, cooking , add a commentSo first and foremost, it’s Free Cone Day at participating Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shops (vegans, I know they have sorbet but I don’t know if their nondairy options are fully free of kingdom Fauna ingredients, sorry). You can locate a participating shop here… and there’s one within easy walking distance of my house, aw yeah. (Like, yesterday I got off the bus a few stops early there to do my grocery shopping and carry it home easy walking. Oh yes. Free deliciousness will be mine.)
In other news, (more…)
Monkey Monday: it is so on now. 28 April 2008 2:40 pm
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, monkeys, pictures, school , 2 commentsRegular monkey-style early-week randomness resumes tomorrow, I swear. But in the meantime, um, well, yeah:
