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Photo of the Day: Sun and Scone

What’s better than a breakfast with a big giant scone and muffin when the sun is out? This is from Rue Cler, a lovely French bistro in downtown Durham.

Skin Deep

Don’t eat too many chips or you’ll break out, right?

We’ve all heard  that drinking gallons of water can not only keep your insides running right, but also help you with clear skin. So it’s no surprise to any of us that what you eat and drink can impact not just your weight and love handles, [...]

Photo of the Day: International Women’s Day

Today, March 8, 2010 is International Women’s Day, the theme this year is: Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all.

This includes equal rights to food. According to the World Food Programme, a child dies of hunger every six seconds? That’s SECONDS. Please take a moment to show your solidarity against hunger in support of all [...]

Photo of the Day: Seafood Snack

One of the easiest, quickest snacks – shrimp, scrambled eggs, green onions on toast. YUM.

Soul Food

Well, it has been a while since I last wrote something for Zomppa, and while chatting over email with Belinda and Patty, I realized that I should really write about my experience of not eating food during daylight hours for a nineteen day period every year.
Yes, since the age of 15 I have carried out [...]

Inequality of Olympic Proportions

I admit it, I’ve been kinda addicted to the Olympics. Who knew watching skiing and shooting could be so fascinating? Well, the 2010 Olympics is coming to a close, and Vancouver has certainly showed herself to be a wonderful hostess.

I had the fortune to visit and eat my way through Vancouver last year, and truly, [...]

Photo of the Day: Spot

FAO Schwartz.  Spot was on sale.

To Be, Or Not To Be…Preservative Free?

How is it that my very popular brand of organic soft wheat sandwich bread can sit at room temperature for so long before expiring into a dark green, fuzzy mass of mold?

One major part of the processed food supply (for both industrialized organic and conventional food) chain includes something most of us are familiar with [...]

Photo of the Day: Crumpet of the Swan

Remember E.B. White’s book The Trumpet of the Swan, where a mute swan learns to play the trumpet and dines on watercress sandwiches at the Fairmont Copley Boston? Hail watercress sandwiches and delectable crumpets brought straight from the UK by ZomppaKat with butter and fresh honey made from the apiaries of Cake Mountain Man’s mom.

Guest/Crystal: A Home for Fat Tuesday

Thank you to Crystal, our Guest Contributor!
Happy Mardi Gras! Its origins have something to do with squeezing in as much revelry and indulgence as possible before Lent or Ash Wednesday or something…eh, look it up on Wikipedia.

Of course, the place (in the US) to be on this holiday is N’awlins, home to the new Super [...]