For The Love of Food

Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.

I had to make some tough cuts this week because there was so much good reading. I even doubled up once (shhhh, don’t tell). Featured, of course, are the two appearances Summer Tomato made on other blogs this week, including the coveted #1 spot on Chef2video’s Top 10 Thoughtful Food Blogs. Anyone interested in Twitter should definitely check out the crash course I wrote for Food Bloggers Unite! Seriously though, every single one of these stories are worth reading.

If you would like to see more of my favorite articles each week or just don’t want to wait until Friday, be sure to follow me on Twitter (@summertomato) or the Summer Tomato Facebook fan page. For complete reading lists join me on the social bookmarking sites StumbleUpon and Delicious. I’m very active on all these sites and would love to connect with you there.

Submissions of your own best food and health articles are also welcome, just drop me an email using the contact form. I am currently accepting guest posts at Summer Tomato for any healthy eating, living and exercise tips.

For The Love of Food

• Top 10 “Thoughtful Food Blogs” <<I was ranked #1 thoughtful food blog “babe” at Chef2video!!!
• Twitter Crash Course For Food Bloggers <<This guest post I did at Food Bloggers Unite! is perfect for anyone looking to use Twitter effectively, even if you aren’t a food blogger.
• The calorie delusion: Why food labels are wrong <<This fantastic article at New Scientist may challenge everything you think you know about calories (Thanks to @j_d_hastings at D’Arte Board)
• Living a longer life: whose advice helps? <<Ever suspect those longevity gurus like Dr. Oz were full of it? Well, turns out most of them are. (Los Angeles Times)
• 5 Guaranteed Ways To Curb The Mid-Afternoon Munchies <<Couldn’t agree more with these tips from Dumb Little Man. If you snack in the afternoon, these are your solutions.
• Tips To Get Fruits & Veggies In Your Diet <<B.S. of the week 10 asinine “tips” to get more (drinkable?) fruits and vegetables in your diet. Not sure what people have against chewing, but I have something against quickly digestible foods. (HealthKicker)
• Is The Cheesecake Factory Gross? Grist says yes, the Cheesecake Factory really is gross <<Speaking of restaurants, these two articles explain beautifully why some of you love the Cheesecake Factory and why the rest of us would be happy to avoid it the rest of our lives. Definitely check the first article to get an idea of the number of calories in a single meal at this popular restaurant. (Internet Food Association; Grist)
• How Fructose Impairs the Memory <<Summer Tomato always notices when nutrition and neuroscience collide. (Scientific American)
• The World’s Diet Secrets <<I was surprised how much I enjoyed this article on international health and dietary patterns by Yahoo! Health (thanks Dad!)
• Spanish-inspired Chickpeas, Chorizo and Spinach, inspired by the written word <<This divine looking recipe is making me really miss my pressure cooker. (Blue Kitchen)

What did you find this week?

For The Love of Food

Those of you who follow me on Twitter (@summertomato) or my Facebook fan page know I read a lot about food and health. Every week I post dozens of interesting articles and tips I find around the internet, most of which I do not have time to blog about. In the interest of awesomeness (and time) I have decided to start posting my favorite articles from the week  every Friday in a new segment, “For The Love of Food.”

For those of you with time constraints or an aversion to social media, this should help you find and prioritize the most worthwhile food and health stories and recipes. It will also free me up to do more in depth research for my Monday and Wednesday posts, something I think we can all appreciate.

I work like mad to keep up with the most interesting news on the web, but I would love your help in this! Please feel free to send me your favorite links and I might include them in Friday’s post (with a shout out, of course!). If you think it is appropriate, you are welcome to send me articles from your own website, but please please please only send me your best material. My time is extremely limited and I hope no one chooses to abuse it by spamming me with every single one of their blog posts. But I do want to see your best work, so send it along!

If you find anything awesome that I missed, go ahead and leave us a link in the comments.

Oh, and since I know you’re wondering, yes I carved that heart out of a red bell pepper myself 😉

For The Love of Food

• Freeze That Thought <<My favorite advice article this week about optimizing your freezer, by Mark Bittman at the New York Times.

• Food, Inc. movie trailer <<Must watch!!!!

• Obesity and the Fastness of Food <<Is how fast we eat making us fat, or are we just not paying enough attention? From Economix blog.

• Did Oprah’s KFC Giveaway Do Us Any Favors? <<In case you were wondering, “grilled” KFC is still junk food. Explained by one of my heroes, Marion Nestle.

• Drink Away Dementia? <<There isn’t enough info about the role of food in cognitive health. I hope all the news is this good! From Medline.

• Process of elimination <<Interesting look at the difficulty of removing processed foods from your diet.

• You Can Lick Your Plate, or in This Case, Your Slab <<Elitist food article of the week from the New York Times. Who knew you could fry an egg on a salt slab? You gotta love it!

• 3 Ways To Increase Traffic With Better Food Photos << For you food bloggers out there, this is great advice from Food Bloggers Unite.

• How Celebrity Chefs Saved Food <<Interesting look at how TV chefs are making real food trendy again, by Zachary Cohen at From Farm to Table

• Crock Pot Vietnamese Pho (Beef Noodle Soup) <<Drool inducing recipe of the week from Steamy Kitchen.

Let us know what you think!