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!
On milk and monopolies. 31 March 2010 1:22 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,books,economics,geekery,GMOs,milk,politics,reading,school , add a commentSo yesterday I spent some quality time (read: almost four hours) in the Rose Reading Room of the main branch of the New York Public Library, blasting through Nature’s Perfect Food: How Milk Became America’s Drink
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 farSo 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…)
I may have created monsters last night, readers. 9 February 2010 11:49 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,eating,fun,geekery,history,photos,pictures,potatoes,random,reading,school,silly,writing , 4 commentsOne is the paper due in my industrial food class tomorrow, which is currently in very drafty form, full of rambles like:
…Hotchkiss comes in, pretending that change is this magical uniform unstoppable force kind of thing, but fortunately we also have the MIT book reminding us that there was no shortage of immovable objects — and sometimes those immovable objects were people, even if sometimes those people were embodying social forces (*cough* PATRIARCHY *cough* I am looking at you, Professor Sedgwick, you jerkface you. *cough cough cough*)
Yeah, I’ve got some revising to do. But anything written is better than nothing, and editing things to make them suck less is way easier than writing, so hey, I’ll take what I got.
Last night’s other little monster, I am happy to report, was of the edible persuasion, and I got pictures.
I’m posting both because the real color is somewhere in between too dark without flash, and weirdly over-lit with. Also, because more fries!
Homemade French fries, from (more…)
Monkey Monday: recently closed browser tabs ahoy! 8 February 2010 1:21 am
Posted by Tracy in : eating,fangirl,food snobbery,geekery,Harold McGee,news,random,reading,school , add a commentGo go gadget Google Reader, still shortening my attention span after all these years:
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This link to one blogger’s notes about December’s Food and Climate Change Summit is to remind me to blog up my own notes about that event already, geez I am such a slacker yadda yadda.
The Fat Nutritionist continues to rock harder than oh, I dunno, but something that rocks really hard.
Michael Ruhlman takes on the idea that people in the U.S. are too stupid to cook with (and I quote exactly): The World’s Most Difficult Roasted Chicken Recipe. Now if only everybody had the time and mental energy to cook more often, I think something like Heaven might emerge. Even for people who don’t like to cook, because I for one like inviting people over for dinner. (more…)
