Wednesday “whoops” redux 17 September 2008 11:55 pm
Posted by Tracy in : silly, mishaps, random, fangirl, school, geekery, Warren Belasco , add a commentSo regular readers of this blog will know that I have been sooooooo excited about school for awhile now, like at least since getting in. My eagerness was such that I programmed my class schedule into Google Calendar when I first registered in May. Only it turns out the gods of the Internet adjusted for time zones when we moved…. which is why, at 7:35 tonight, when I started recognizing some other food studies first-years in a flood of people emerging from the direction of the classroom where I thought I should be going, I finally figured out that my class was at 4:55. Gah! (I didn’t figure out about the time change earlier because I had to rearrange the rest of my schedule on short notice, but I made those changes after leaving the Pacific time zone.)
The good news (and the reason I don’t want do-overs for the whole friggin’ day) is that I did something fun and geeky before going down to NYU campus to eat dinner (mmm, pizza) and finish my class reading (urgh, academic sociology). (more…)
Shameless nerditude: Belasco’s culinary triangle 25 April 2007 10:27 pm
Posted by Tracy in : convenience, responsibility, culinary triangle, Sidney Mintz, school, identity, Michael Pollan, anthropology, eating, vegetarian, Warren Belasco, cooking , add a commentSo. Warren James Belasco is a historian and professor of American studies at the University of Maryland who writes about food — and very well, I might add. I read his 2006 book, Meals to Come: a History of the Future of Food over winter break, and today I finished his 1989 book, Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture took on the Food Industry, because it was due back at the UO library today and I wanted to return it on time rather than provoke the wrath of our housemate The History Librarian. Belasco is the co-editor of Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies, a collection of excellent academic papers about food and its marketing which was also due today. (Eventually I would like to review all these books on TracyFood, because I am a colossal geek.) In my Fall 2006 food and culture anthropology class (ANTH 365 at the University of Oregon), we used Belasco’s “culinary triangle” model of food selection to describe and discuss the way individuals approach the question of what to eat, and I find myself wanting to refer to Belasco’s terminology on TracyFood a lot, so I’m going to define it here for future reference. (more…)
Monkey Monday: Morning Glory update and more 19 March 2007 9:24 am
Posted by Tracy in : school, sustainability, vegan, Morning Glory, monkeys, work, agriculture, convenience, eating, anthropology, books, Warren Belasco, responsibility, cooking , add a commentHappy Monday!
Background information relevant to this entry: One of Morning Glory’s specialties is vegan “omelettes” (I use the term lightly, of course) of seasoned sautéed vegetables or veggies and tofu, folded into a giant potato pancake-like shell. We generally try to have a stack of these potato shells ready-made, partially-cooked so we can finish crisping them up on the grill instead of making them to order, which is sort of time-consuming and a pain in the ass. Until very recently, I had only a vague notion of how the shells were made (in a big frying pan, flipped like an omelette or pancake, and then put on the grill to finish par-cooking so the pan is free for the next handful of shredded potato). Last week, that changed. Also I’m supposed to be writing a final paper for my sustainable agriculture class. (more…)
(Cook)book review: Diet for a Small Planet 16 March 2007 4:13 pm
Posted by Tracy in : school, environment, sustainability, vegan, work, politics, reviews, identity, Warren Belasco, eating, people, books, eugene, sundance, vegetarian, cooking , add a commentHoly monkey gods, y’all. Even the title of this entry should make it clear that I’m still a bit bewildered by my recent reading of Frances Moore Lappé’s 1971 classic, Diet for a Small Planet
NAME THIS POST! 22 January 2007 7:03 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture, sustainability, news, health, convenience, Warren Belasco, eating, books, Marion Nestle, sundance, anthropology , 2 commentsDear readers:
I’m looking for a clever way to describe miscellaneous news of the kind I find myself wanting to write about this Monday evening. So far I seem to be big on alliteration, as I’ve thought of: Monday morsels, Monday melange, and Monday miscellany. But none of those really roll trippingly off the tongue. Monday mix? Still not so good. If you have a good idea (or really, any idea, since as you can see mine are not exactly rockin’), post a comment and I’ll change the title of this entry to give mad props to my favorite suggestion. Also I might make mystery Monday (or whatever I end up calling it) a regular feature if it turns out I generally start the week with a lot of ideas for little items.
Thanks in advance, and here are some such (hopefully amusing) little tidbits,
-Tracy
