Today at Open Letters: Global Climate Change. 6 November 2011 1:37 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,events,writing , add a commentI’ve said this before and will no doubt say it again, but I believe in global weirding and would like very much for it to stop proving its existence with meteorological disasters, please.
NaBloPoMo continues! 5 November 2011 1:42 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,events,random,writing , add a commentWeekend posts will be over at Open Letters. Today’s unanswerable letter is to poverty. Lighthearted fall reading! Really!
Tuesday is for Technical Difficulties. And Twitter. 1 November 2011 3:28 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,events,food safety,food snobbery,geekery,hot mess,Michael Pollan,random,Twitter Tuesday,whoops,writing , add a commentWell, readers, I’m sorry to report that my NaBloPoMo effort is off to a very frustrating beginning, as the Tumblr I created and registered for the event seems to be a nonstarter—I haven’t been able to confirm my registration with BlogHer and on top of that Tumblr doesn’t support fun and easy imports from other sites anymore, so I’m going to have to cross-post by hand for the time being. Whine, whine, whine.
But enough of that, on with Twitter Tuesday. Like the name suggests, my thought here is to aggregate various and sundry amusing tweets that catch my eye over the course of any given arbitrary period of time (since I can’t keep up with them, it pretty much has to be a quasi-random sampling, that’s for sure). (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…)
Liveblogging TEDxManhattan: “Changing the Way We Eat” 12 February 2011 4:19 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,eating,environment,events,geekery,liveblogging,nyc,school,sustainability,writing , add a commentHey party people, surprise Saturday post!
I am coming to you sort of live from the 4th floor of NYU’s Kimmel Center, site of the NYC FoodEDU Student Food Collaborative TEDxManhattan viewing party (official Meetup site for the event here). For more information about TEDxManhattan, try this link here; we’re currently watching the third session, which kicks off with an old TED video of Dr. William Liu of the Angiogenesis Foundation, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” So far I am very happy to hear him mention quality of life as a consideration in the usefulness of angiogenesis-based cancer treatment.
I’ll be updating this post as the presentations continue to inspire me to comment, stay tuned (or read on, if you’re reading this after the fact).
