In his article Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?, Bittman breaks down all the various arguments (or shall we say excuses) around healthy eating and clearly spells out all the cheaper healthier alternatives people could be eating instead of highly processed foods.

Graphic by Bill Marsh – The New York Times

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Hoi Ning is a lover of all things delectable. She will try almost anything once, though twice is pushing it for some things! She is an adventurous lifelong learner, with a penchant for challenging the norm and pushing the envelope. She loves to ask questions, hear stories, and remember details. With food, she is passionate about sweets, especially gourmet ice cream and artisanal chocolates. Her motto is: “Life’s too short” — so she tries to live life with no regrets. That said, the plan is to end up in Paris for every fifth birthday going forward. Her favorite cities are ones that make her feel at home: Paris, Melbourne, Seattle, Philadelphia, Berlin. She likes to stretch and be stretched — mentally, physically, emotionally. And she believes work and play can ultimately be interchangeable.

Philly Food & Friends (PFF, for those of you who like to keep things simple) will explore the ever-expanding food culture in the City of Brotherly Love. While some folks may still associate Philly with the bygone days of grit and grime, this column is here to show you how far the city has come, particularly in terms of what it, its residents, and its restaurants have to offer food lovers. Not only is Philly resplendent with food options, the city is also at the forefront of challenging traditional notions about what it means to eat — and eat well. This is a key time for the city to be engaging residents and visitors alike in a dynamic conversation about and around food — and PFF is here to give Zomppa readers access and insight into that conversation.

Philadelphia is a foodie paradise, and I have the thrill of living right in the heart of it. When I moved out here in 2010, I knew that the city was in love with food. Little did I know how broadly and deeply this love would grow — even within a span of two years. And little did I know how exciting it would be for me to get swept up in this exciting and whirlwind romance.

In my inaugural piece, I want to share a little bit about myself. First things first, I adore ice cream. As you might be able to tell from my profile pic, I’m intensely infatuated with this creamy confection. I can literally have it for every meal of the day. And lest you think I’m picky and particular, I love ice cream in all flavors, forms, shapes, and sizes — ice cream, sorbet, frozen yogurt, gelato, sorbetto, frozen custard, soft serve, hand-scooped, cups, cones, milkshakes, sundaes, cake, pie…. Well, you get the point.

Stay tuned tomorrow for one of the best intersections in Philly for…ice cream!

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As soon as Katherine was tall enough, she was peering over the kitchen counter watching her mom make Three Cup Chicken or lotus root soup. She grew up making potstickers, scallion pancakes, and winter solstice dumplings with her entire family; to this day, the kitchen is still the most popular room in her house. If Katherine isn’t lawyering or bouldering, you can find Katherine in her kitchen sleepily wondering why she waited until 11PM to start rising bread dough.

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I am happy to announce on behalf of the Zomppa team that CommentLuv has now been activated on this site. For those of you not familiar with what on earth I am talking about, this is very much a give and take feature in the comment sections of blogs and websites where everyone gets to be a winner really.  It helps to build links and traffic to and from websites. Here is the basic lowdown:

1. This is a special premium plugin for self-hosted WordPress sites
2. It is really 8 plugins in one so if you know anything about WordPress sites, you know that the fewer the plugins you install on your website, the lesser the chances of miscommunications between plugins and also with WordPress itself.
3. It basically eradicates spam on comments
4. When fellow bloggers comment on an article of ours now, they can include a link back to a recent post of theirs.  This helps build-up their list of backlinks to the site, and we get to help promote your material.
5. When we comment on other CommentLuv enabled sites, we also got to do point 4 on other blogs which in turn will help drive traffic to our site.
6. There are additional features which you can activate on the plugin that allow people leaving comments to also include keywords of theirs and also share the fact that they have left a comment on your site on other social media channels.

Essentially, you will now notice we have a little CommentLuv icon at the bottom of our comment sections.  If you put in your details and your website address, the options to backlink to one of your last 10 posts will then come up.

I could go on about this more, but really, for a full review on the plugin, do check out Gera’s very comprehensive review  CommentLuv Premium Plugin Review: 7 Reasons Why this Plugin Rocks. We have only had it active on our site for about a week now, and look forward to playing around with it some more and see how it starts to affect our traffic and also that of our readers.  So, if you are already using CommentLuv on your blog, come join us! If you are not, consider joining in, I guess!

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Check out this fun infographic by the creative, funky team of HackCollege:

Created by: Hack College

For some fun recipes with what you can do with those little packages of ramen, head on over to HackCollege.

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Valentine’s Day came and went, but here at Zomppa, we profess our love for food everyday, and if you’ve enjoyed our Photos of the Day, you might wonder, Where did it go??

We still are posting up a photo of the day – only to make it easier for you to enjoy, we are now posting them on our Facebook page. So show some love for food – and head on over to the Zomppa Facebook page to get exclusive photos!

Happy Love Food Day Every Day!

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Springing from a background in sexuality and gender, Madelyn uses an intersectional eco-feminist lens to interpret the world around her. As a passionate – newly vegan, amateur activist – photographer, she hopes to add an interesting perspective to Zomppa’s dialogue on food thought, policy and fun as its first intern. While she isn’t bouncing between classes on her college campus, she is found snuggling up to a good book with her cats or planning a new garden project.

You can find Madelyn’s photos and contributions at Rachel in Veganland and The Carrboro Citizen.

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Source: Magnolia Pictures

“You have to fall in love with your job,” says Jiro.

He certainly makes us fall in love with his work.

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