I can’t remember what I had for breakfast yesterday, so I’ll start this morning. My partner and I had coffee together—two cups each, with sugar and delicious organic half and half. I had a slice of bread (homemade multigrain) with Earth Balance margarine and Skippy peanut butter. After a 9 AM meeting at City Hall, I rewarded myself with a raid on the free food on offer there, got a cup of berries (straw-, black-, blue-, and rasp-) and grapes (both red and green) and a 100-calorie pack of Craisins. I ate the fresh fruit over the course of the next hour or so, along with a handful of pretzels (bless the receptionists in our office who keep us stocked on snacks) and water from the cooler. I broke into the Craisins but didn’t finish them until about 3:30 PM, when I got back into the office after a meeting that started late and thus ate up my planned lunch time (pun not really intended but there it is). Then I had to race to school and class and didn’t have time for any sustenance until after class. I got home _{8PM and ate a carrot. Then I had a cup of black tea and a handful of chocolate chips, then bruine bonen met stroop (red kidney beans with sugar beet syrup, which sounds weird but just imagine it as really minimalist baked beans, Dutch style). Also water. And ibuprofen (not really food but ingested all the same). Finally, ~11PM, a piece of toast (homemade multigrain again) with butter, nutritional yeast, and a sprinkling of kosher salt.}

I love my copy of Hungry Planet and am keeping my fingers and toes crossed that I get lucky and win a copy of the Mendel-D’Aluisio’s latest =)

My favorite cookbook of all time (Moosewood Restaurant New Classics) was a gift, and I actually got a second copy as a gift just as the first one was starting to really fall apart. (I still have both, though.)

Gee, I wonder if poor people eat more processed foods because they’re cheaper. And whether the study looked at socioeconomic status AT ALL. If there’s one thing I’m learning this fall (with classes in food sociology and food policy, and the Great U.S. Healthcare Reform Debate all over the news) it’s that poverty is incredibly hazardous to health. And yet we’re supposed to look away from that elephant in the room at what we individuals can do for ourselves, not how we can improve our society. Sigh...

Oh, wow, that looks good. And I just happen to have some St. Andre in the fridge already....