Monkey Monday: Readers… 22 August 2011 9:08 am
Posted by Tracy in : eating,events,family,friends,good news,life,monkeys,nyc,photos,pictures,politics,silly,tea , add a comment…I married him.
Photo by the kindness of a stranger and Peter’s iPhone. In case you don’t click through for the caption on Flickr, here it is:
Gay people can, and Tracy and I did!
On pi approximation day 2011 around 4pm, Tracy and I got married at the city clerk’s office in downtown Manhattan. At T+16 hours, we told our families. At T+40 hours, we went to cheer for all the people getting married who previously could not.
And now for some teachable moments! (more…)
Flashback: competitive eating at Harvey Mudd College 9 March 2011 3:09 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,eating,events,food as spectator sport,school,silly,writing , add a commentOkay, so if all goes according to plan, soon you will call me Master (hey, I’m writing a self-indulgent flashback to undergraduate days at engineering school; I get to be as geeky as I want). Which is to say that if all continues according to plan this should be my last semester of my Master’s degree in food studies (concentration: food systems and policy, and please feel free to forward that information and my resumé to anyone you know who’s hiring food geeks) at NYU! So. In an effort to finish said Master’s, I’m in a class called Research Applications, in which my fellow last-semester students and I help each other work on big research projects. Which, it turns out, has a way of inspiring me to write blog posts, or at least this one.
One of my classmates (who will remain anonymous at least until she reads this post and tells me if she’s OK with my using her name) is writing about “extreme eating”—Man Versus Food, the Heart Attack Grille, stuff like that. One angle she’s particularly interested in is how college students engage in extreme eating and the gendered dimensions of such activity. Which sent me into a little flashback earlier today, because (perhaps unsurprisingly) something about the male-dominated environment of my undergrad engineering college did in fact lend itself to regular events involving some degree of competitive eating, a few of which I will now describe (and link to my class discussion board in case anybody’s interested in reading more than a summary). (more…)
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…)
Wednesday weirdness: ginger condensation? 19 May 2010 1:44 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,ingredients,photos,random,silly,weird , 1 comment so farSo yesterday, as planned in the end of my last post, I made a batch of Tracy granola, and noticed something weird when I measured out the ginger, from this jar here:
Just the standard Fairway-brand ground ginger, see?
But what’s that on the inside of the lid there? What is it? (more…)
Monkey Monday: Dan and Dan sing about eggs! 17 May 2010 7:01 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,eating,eggs,funny,monkeys,random,silly,video , add a commentI know, I know, I’m about a million years behind on all the awesomeness the Intergoogletwitfacetubes have to offer, but big thanks to Ze Frank for blogging about Dan and Dan’s Daily Mail song, so I could waste a dryer cycle watching their videos, including this gem, which is going to be stuck in my head for the foreseeable future, not that there’s anything wrong with that:
Yay for fun songs that combine eggs and tea—two of my very favorite things!
