St. Patrick’s Day is when draft is 50% off and rivers run green, right? Not quite…although I really should leave the history lesson to our dear ZomppaKat who is from the Emerald Isle. St. Patrick’s Day has been celebrated for over 1,000 years as a religious holiday that falls during Lent.
So who was St. Patrick? [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Valentine’s Day, Apolo Ohno’s 6th medal in a kick-ass race (did you see his semi-final run?), Chinese New Year – it was a busy weekend! And a busy eating weekend.
While Ohno gets his rush from speeding like a maniac on steel blades, some of us find pleasure in things a bit less…fast. Food carries much [...]
This is out of control.
For the past 6 days, I have been confined to a 1000 square foot apartment with a dazed and confused 3 year old, a 1 year old trapeze artists (she has been doing flips off of my couch) and my visiting mother.
With the exception of a few trips to the trash [...]
Valentine’s Day is coming up…need something to spice it up? This year, Valentine’s Day is also Chinese New Year (it comes on a different day every year so it’s a bit of a moving target), so I get to cheat.
I get to restart my resolutions and celebrate TWO New Year’s (what kind of cheating were [...]
If you’ve been following, you know I live in the South. But I’m a New Englander, raised in a place where “snow day” means you better dress warm because you still have to wait for the schoolbus at the corner, only there’s about 2 feet of snow and sideways sleet hitting your face.
I miss it.
But [...]
