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Nomad Philly’s Open at Last

The long-awaited opening of Nomad Pizza’s Philly restaurant (611 S. 7th St., between Bainbridge and South streets) finally arrived this week. In honor of the occasion, I’m offering up my extended interview with Nomad owners and chefs Stalin Bedon and Tom Grim, who are featured as two our favorite food people in our current issue [...]

The Anderson Cooper Diet and Other Lures to Writing

Writing about food on a regular basis has come to feel like a sacred trust after several years, the most recent one with nearly weekly posts. It’s actually tons of fun. Cataloging ideas as they present themselves on any given day, working them over in my mind and shaping the content of a choice one [...]

A More Effective Crunch

Your hip flexors and upper abdominal muscles are the main movers in a standard crunch. But, remove the hip flexors from the equation and you’ll actually end up with a more engaging crunch that’ll engage more parts of your core. It’s a fairly simple thing to do. The hip flexors and the hamstrings can’t work [...]

When Health Insurance Becomes Cost-Prohibitive

Sure, you need it. But, with rates consistently and excessively escalating, eventually the time will come when it becomes too much of a burden to bear. And then what? By Sara Scully People are amazed when I tell them that I don’t have health insurance. I stopped buying it in 2010 when it became unaffordable. [...]