Monkey Monday: real monkeys and more! 19 April 2010 11:07 am
Posted by Tracy in : events,fun,funny,health at every size,media,meta,monkeys,news,random,video , 2 commentsFirst things first, I know this doesn’t really have anything to do with food but it makes me incredibly happy so I’m posting it wherever I can:
If you like that, you will also like this (it’s really quick, I promise!)
And now, for something less completely different. (more…)
Monkey Monday: coming up for air edition 14 December 2009 8:08 am
Posted by Tracy in : events,fangirl,geekery,health at every size,Marion Nestle,news,nyc,politics,school,sustainability,video,work,writing , 3 commentsHey, so it’s finals week from now until my last paper is due on the 23rd (which is an awful deadline and I sincerely hope to be done before then) and in the meantime I’ve been a big slacker which is why I haven’t posted and blah blah blah excuses excuses. Last week was ten thousand kinds of awesome, though.
On Monday morning, I went to an awesome event at The New School, celebrating the NYC FRESH initiative, which had not yet officially passed City Council, although it did on Wednesday. FRESH is Food Retail Expansion to Support Health, and it’s a mix of zoning and tax incentives for full-service grocery stores in certain underserved neighborhoods (Northern Manhattan, the South Bronx, Central Brooklyn and Jamaica, Queens). Not only must the stores devote a certain amount of square footage to fresh produce and other whole foods, they are required to accept EBT and WIC (which is really only common sense if they’re actually going to serve the lower-income communities that food retailers often avoid) and publically, transparently commit to good labor practices, so that people who work at those stores can afford to shop there. So awesome. And (more…)
Belated randomness! Now with extra funny! 28 October 2009 5:32 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,culture,fast food,food snobbery,fun,funny,health,health at every size,media,nutrition,random,video , add a commentI don’t know about the rest of you, but I find regular laughter to be an essential component of a balanced media consumption lifestyle, right along with serious hard-thinking stuff like class readings. (For sociology next week I had to choose between Barry Popkin’s The World is Fat and Hank Cardello and ghostwriter Doug Carr’s Stuffed: An Insider’s Look at Who’s (Really) Making America Fat. Yeah, that’s rough. But the Popkin book is shorter and not based on the premise that only the food industry can save us from ourselves, so it wins, even if it may yet force a ranty post or two out of me.) I digress. Here’s a few instances of food politics in pop culture that helped me keep things in perspective: (more…)
Thank you Thursday: ice cream appreciation. 11 September 2009 4:04 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,dessert,eating,fangirl,food snobbery,good news,milk,news,pictures,politics,school,video , add a commentSo this belated Thank you Thursday is going up Friday, just like Monday’s monkeys were a bit off-schedule. Speaking of off-schedule, it turns out I can’t crash tonight’s Contemporary Issues class, because Professor Ray’s out of town. So much for my cunning plan. On the upside, I’m back to digging the syllabus for Advanced Topics: Food Sociology, and I have written permission to skip the class which overlaps so strongly with the sustainable agriculture course I took at the University of Oregon. Victory dance! Clearly, this calls for ice cream, or at least the idea thereof (it’s kind of cold and wet out for the real thing).
First of all, a little bit of classic Sesame Street:
Yay! Thanks, YouTube! And thank you, ice cream, for being delicious and making me happy. (more…)
Monkey Monday: post-birthday edition 31 August 2009 11:15 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,dessert,eating,events,monkeys,nyc,pictures,random,restaurants,video , 5 commentsGood morning, readers! Today’s random ramblings are mostly about my birthday celebrations this past weekend, but scroll down to the end for a special treat whenever you get bored reading all about me, me, me — a Smithsonian video of Julia Child cooking primordial soup. So awesome. Which reminds me: I still haven’t seen Julie and Julia, because I am an enormous slacker, but the good news is that because I’ve put it off for so long, now I can see it using the cheap movie passes available through NYU. Yay! (So, um, anyone reading this who wants to see Julie and Julia in the NYC area some time in the next few weeks, drop a comment or an email, eh?) And now, on to my birthday weekend, with an emphasis on its most delicious aspects. (more…)
