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Sofrito Pa’ Ti vegan Recipe Zine Seeks Submissions
7:44 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Food| Media · No Comments
14 Oct 2009
The old school Rican in me thinks that “real” Rican food has lots of animal in it, especially pork, pero if anyone could make me change my mind it’s amiga Noemi which is why I want peeps to know about her latest zine project!
I’m compiling a vegan recipe zine, “Sofrito Pa’ Ti.” I’m a Puerto Rican/Mexican single mom, alternative media activist & writer living in south texas and I love to bake & cook. It’ll be focused on how to cook when you don’t have a traditional stove (which we don’t)-so we cook w/ electric skillets, microwave, slow cookers, tea pot (boil water for oatmeal or pasta!) and a counter toaster oven. A smaller version of this was available at this year’s Allied Media Conference and now I want to expand it and include more recipes. If you’d like to submit your vegan recipes, send up to 3 to csdistro (at) gmail dot com. Include your name, email, mailing address and a brief bio, include your email or site in your bio if you’d like it to be included in the zine.
Deadline-shall we aim for Dec 15th?
Blog Plug: Taco Journalism
9:13 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Blogs| Food| Internet| Linking Latinos · 1 Comment
5 Aug 2009As a food obsessed blogger, I was delighted to see that a food blog I frequent, Taco Journalism out of Austin, was featured in this great video from The Austin American Statesman.
At Taco Journalism, taco freak Mando Rayo takes you on a culinary tour of taquerías great and small, dazzling and disappointing. If you like tacos and like blogs, then I think you might love Taco Journalism. Pay Nando a little visit here.
Mississippi is the Fattest State — but Why?
10:48 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Food| Health| Mississippi| society · 1 Comment
1 Jul 2009
The state of Mississippi has won a top ranking on a list it would probably prefer not to be on at all: the obesity list. According to a new study by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, adult obesity rates increased in 23 states last year, and Mississippi takes the cake, so to speak, in being obese. The Houston Chronicle reports:
• Mississippi had the highest rate of adult obesity, 32.5 percent, for the fifth year in a row.
• Three additional states now have adult obesity rates above 30 percent, including Alabama, 31.2 percent; West Virginia, 31.1 percent; and Tennessee, 30.2 percent. Ohio ranked 10th with an adult obesity rate of 28.6 percent.
• Colorado had the lowest rate of obese adults, at 18.9 percent, followed by Massachusetts, 21.2 percent; and Connecticut, 21.3 percent.
• Mississippi also had the highest rate of overweight and obese children, at 44.4 percent. It’s followed by Arkansas, 37.5 percent; and Georgia, 37.3 percent.
• Following Alabama, Michigan ranks No. 2 with the most obese 55- to 64-year-olds, 36 percent. Colorado has the lowest rate, 21.8 percent.
What’s perhaps more alarming to me is that Mississippi’s children also lead the nation in obesity. Not surprising (if parents aren’t eating well or exercising, neither are their children) but alarming. And beyond alarming is that Colorado, at nearly 20%, is the U.S.’s “leanest” state.
But to invoke a post by La Macha from earlier this year, as alarmed as we might be by statistics, we need to look at the causes of this problem. Beyond just the superficial “you eat too much junk food” analysis, these statistics have everything to do with access to healthy food, education and everything that goes along with living in impoverished areas or belonging to a traditionally oppressed group.
Instead of just being alarmed, we need to examine the causes and talk about answers to incredibly hard questions: like, is good nutrition really an option for everyone? And what “should” struggling famiilies eat if they only have access to fast food? Aside from the fact that some areas lack access to fresh food, when you are sweating to make ends meet and a bag of organic salad that serves 2 costs $4.99 while you can get a bucket of KFC for the whole family for the same price…is this really even a choice anymore?
What do you think?
Via / Chron.com
Paper Taco Trucks!!
6:13 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Culture| Food · Comments Off
24 Jun 2009
Ah the Taco Truck. Staple of the Mala’hood and many hoods despite attempts to push them out.
I know that when I was a little Mala, I loved playing with paper dolls, pero the idea of having my kids play with paper taco trucks, like the ones I saw via Boing Boing this morning, made me way too excited.
Print your own taco trucks from here!
P.S. Yes, Mala is staying away from anything too heavy today because her older daughter, la MapucheRican graduates from elementary school today.
Cracking Down on Taco Trucks, Revisited
3:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Food| Health| Justice| Los Angeles| business| society · Comments Off
20 May 2009
Back in 2005 we told you about how our beloved taco trucks were getting smacked down by health officials in a few cities, among them Nashville, for being dirty. A taco truck? Dirty? Ha! And what difference does it make, when everybody knows a little chile can kill anything! Now it seems that taco trucks are yet again the victims of haters, but this time in on its real home turf: the Los Angeles area. Wha? Maegan first reported on this last year and The LA Times reports today:
Last summer, the City Council took action.No longer could loncheras set up for hours at parks or construction sites. Instead, they could stop only at sites where a bathroom was available to patrons, and stay just half an hour, barely enough time to set up and prepare a meal or two before having to break down and drive away again. In addition, all employees had to get background checks.
Palos Verdes Estates is hardly the only community to crack down on the trucks in recent years. Los Angeles County supervisors last year passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor for taco trucks to park in unincorporated spots for more than an hour after restaurateurs complained they were siphoning off customers. A Superior Court judge later ruled the law unconstitutional.
Similar restrictions have been imposed nationwide in cities large and small, rural and metropolitan, from Hughson, Calif., to Houston, and in seemingly unlikely spots, including Des Moines; Charlotte, N.C.; and Hillsboro, Ore.
Some of the reasons remain the same, among them fears about food sanitation, but truck supporters are citing racism as a cause in some cities, with one Houston official justifying their demise by saying “I don’t want us to become, you know, a Third World area.” Well listen, Mr. Whomeveryouare, from one Houstonian to another, we are pretty much already there and it’s not because of taco trucks but because of people shooting each other for fun or stress relief.
What’s to become of taco truck culture in Southern California with these crackdowns? Probably the loss of a lot of great food. But I’m going to guess that this trendy new “taco truck” — all the rage on Twitter — isn’t going to get the same treatment. Nothing against Kogi (on the contrary, I love what they are doing, genuinely) but they appear to be thriving and there’s something unfair about one taco truck being somehow more acceptable when the patrons are more “high-end” and its owners are, well, less Mexican.
Via / LA Times
Image via el en houston on Flickr
Bring on the Chuletas : Swine Flu in the Mala’Hood
6:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Food| Health| animals| mexico · 2 Comments
27 Apr 2009
Jennifer wrote up about the swine flu outbreak that has emptied Mexican streets and has hit close to home, with a confirmed case of the illness right here in my own home borough of Queens, NYC. Thankfully swine flu isn’t something you can get from eating pork, porque everytime I hear the words “swine flu” I want some chuletas or pernil.
And now swine flu is the new racial profiling:
Secretary Janet Napolitano also said border agents have been directed to begin passive surveillance of travelers from affected countries, with instructions to isolate anyone who appears actively ill with suspected influenza.
In other words don’t stand close to a coughing Mexican? Or if you see a Mexican sneeze call ICE?
Cafe con Links on a Sabado Morn
10:29 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Cuba| Food| Immigration| Internet| Linking Latinos| Music| New York City| Politics · Comments Off
21 Feb 2009Twitterputeando : Can you spot the racism and ablism in this anti-twitter piece (of mierda).
Latin America: Venezuela is not the enemy.
Today’s Menu: Frozen Mangu
Shopping : Is Walmart coming to my city (ay por favor no).
Racism : NYPD is racial profiling? Shock!
Musica: Mujeres of Jazz Cubano
Politica : Obama keep saying in Spanish he care about immigration. I’m waiting in English.
Feliz Saturday!
Did you out some Smucker’s Strawberry Jelly on your toast this morning? How about a Nutra Grain Strawberry Cereal Bar or a Pop-Tarts Frosted Blueberry treat for those of you on the run? If so, then you may have gotten your daily dose of the element mercury.
People have been saying for years that products with high fructose corn syrup were bad, however most didn’t know why. Now there have been some studies released showing that some products with high fructose corn syrup contain mercury.
It turns out that many foods sweetened with HFCS contain mercury, left as a residue in the production of caustic soda, a key ingredient in HFCS. And worst of all, the FDA and the industry have known about this potential toxin and has continued serving it up since at least 2005.
Food Network to Launch Second Latino-themed Show
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Two years ago The Food Network decided to try its luck with actually putting Latino people on the air to cook Latino cuisines, with Simply Delicioso being the first show on the network to be hosted by a Latina. It must have gone well, since none other than Food Network’s sacred cow, Rachael EVOO Ray has decided to put her money where Latino food is and produce a Latino-themed cooking show for the network:
Ray is producing a new show for the network starring actress and cookbook author Daisy Martinez. The weekly “Viva Daisy!” premiered Saturday for a six-week run. The show is the network’s second focused on Latino foods, joining Ingrid Hoffman’s “Simply Delicioso.”Martinez previously hosted public television’s Hispanic foods-focused “Daisy Cooks.” The new show will be the first from Ray’s production company, Watch Entertainment, that doesn’t feature Ray.
The collaboration began after Ray and Martinez bonded while participating in a panel discussion together. Ray says she knew immediately she wanted to give Martinez a bigger platform from which to talk about Latino foods.
You can get a taste of Daisy on the video above.
What do you think? Will a Latina face make you watch more Food Network?
Via / News Sentinel
That’s One Ugly Papa
7 Dec 2008
I was thinking of making papas for dinner pero looking at the picture above of a prize winning potato from Lebanon, I’m rethinking my cooking plans.
Hola!
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