Blog Bites: A Round-Up of the Week's Top Food Stories

• Both Meal Ticket and Under the Button report on the opening of Kitchen, a new West Philly restaurant started by a Penn senior

• Food meets science: Would you eat lab-grown meat? - Time

• Philadelphia Magazine reports on a cheesesteak cookie and reviews its favorite red-velvet-inspired desserts

• Girl Scouts testing plan to discontinue six varieties of their cookies - Wall Street Journal

• Midtown Lunch reviews King Kabob food truck at 38th & Spruce

• Oprah and 378 of her staffers take a one-week vegan challenge - Oprah.com

• Penn Gastronomy Club has two exciting events coming up: All-you-can-eat Distrito and Sushi Making at Pod

• 34th Street reviews RIM Café and tells us where we can get nachos for Super Bowl Sunday

• Philly Homegrown tells us how to celebrate Valentine's Day locally

• Recognizing National Carrot Cake Day on February 3, Uwishunu lists their top carrot cake picks around the city

• The politics of food: TreeHugger explains the consequences of the recent deregulation of genetically engineered alfalfa

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