TracyFood

What is Tracy food?

The quick answer is: I’m not sure, but I know it when I taste it.

The long answer is: Keep reading this site, and I’ll keep writing it, and we’ll both find out. In the fall of 2006 I took a course on food and culture at the University of Oregon (Anthropology 365 by Professor Geraldine Moreno-Black), and discovered that I really like writing on this subject, and one class wasn’t nearly enough. So I kept taking classes and started looking into graduate school in food-related fields, and in the meantime set up this site, so I can keep writing and learning. One of the major goals of this project is to improve the ever-expanding definition of Tracy food.

Tracy food starts with everything I eat, at home and out in the world (restaurants and beyond!) In December 2006 I collected some data about my eating habits by keeping a log of everything I ate for a week in the model of the book Hungry Planet: you can read more about that project here. Tracy food is also everything I cook, whether I eat it or not (I cook for a little café called Morning Glory, but I have a tendency to feed people even when there’s no money to be made at it). When I worked in the kitchen at Sundance Natural Foods, I developed lots of recipes, mostly for vegan soups and hot buffet dishes, which I am gradually adapting to home kitchen sizes, so I can publish them on this site. Finally, there’s food for thought and thoughts about food, because like I said in this website’s original motto, Tracy food is not just for eating anymore.

Oh, and all of TracyFood is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License.