Prose, essays, book reviews & poetry with a focus on food:

1. Feeding the Muse: Ernest Hemingway by Arlo Haskell (KWLS)
2. Let’s burn a few books by Tim Hayward (GUARDIAN)
3. Just Flesh: A Cook’s Ode to Burns and Cuts by Scarlett Lindeman (THE ATLANTIC)
4. Horse as main course by Luke Meinzen (SALON)
5. Recipes of the Nerds by Ike DeLorenzo (THE ATLANTIC)
6. Cooking with Mad Men by Carolyn Foster Segal (HUFFINGTON POST)
7. An Actor’s Diet for Me by Matthew Sweet (MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE)
8. What “true” espresso is, and how Americans ruin it by Ted Botha (SALON)
9. The Defining Moment: When I Became a Chef by Michael Romano (THE ATLANTIC)
10. Recipe Redux: Corncakes With Caviar, 1985 by Amanda Hesser (NY TIMES)
11. Love Poem to a Hot Dog (FUNNY POETS)

1. We’ll Always Have Paris! Peripatetic, Poetic and Sweet – A Walking, Literary & Culinary Tour of Paris (BOOK PASSAGE)
2. The Five Best Things I Ate in Oaxaca Mexico (THE PAUPERED CHEF)
3. Five Tasteful U.S. Trips (BUDGET TRAVEL)
4. Ten Places to Eat Now in San Francisco (TABLEHOPPER)
5. World’s Weirdest Food Festivals – SLIDE SHOW (FOOD & WINE)
6. Disney: Epcot Center’s New Pizzeria, Via Napoli – VIDEO (SLICE)
7. Best Beer Museums in the World (GOT SAGA)
8. The 10 Best Lobster Shacks in Maine (TRAVEL & LEISURE)
9. La Tomatina / Buñol, Spain (FLYDIME/FLICKR)
10. 36 Hours in Sonoma (NY TIMES)
11. The Secret to Good Airline Food: Fly Alitalia (ATLANTIC)
12. Extreme Pig Outs: Meals That Will Blow Your Mind and Tip the Scale (TRAVEL CHANNEL)

Let’s Go Shopping!

1. Confederate cake controversy at Winn-Dixie (CF NEWS 13)
2. Eataly Meets Fifth Aveune (WINE ENTHUSIAST)
3. When Wall Street Eats Italian: Eataly complex opens in New York as analysts and stockbrokers queue for jobs (CORRIERE)
4. Don’t mess with this supermarket panda! – VIDEO (NEWS.COM.AU)
5. Saudi cleric slammed over fatwa on women cashiers (AP)
6. Since when did self-service mean bullying by machine? (TELEGRAPH)
7. Whole Foods CEO: Healthy food is affordable necessity (USA TODAY)
8. California Set to Ban Plastic Bags (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR)
9. Trader Joe’s Keeps Quiet On Secrets Of Success – AUDIO (NPR)
10. Man Says He Was Thrown Out Of Grocery Store For Using Service Dog (10 TV NEWS)

DO YOU PLAN your vacations around food?

If so, you’re a culinary tourist — and these links are for you!

1. Who Says Paris Sucks? (TRAVEL NETWORK)
2. Rachael Ray’s Vacation: The Sitcom (FOOD NETWORK HUMOR)
3. Chef on a Shoestring: Classic Creole Concoctions (CBS)
4. Life Cereal on Mad Men: The Cure for the Common Breakfast (EATER)
5. Supertaster: Fake Street Food from Taco Bell (CHOW)
6. Sardines Roasting On An Open Fire… (JOSE ANDRES/YFROG)

On tonight’s menu…

1. Eat Tweet Advocates Cooking Without Parsley (GRUB STREET)
2. The Secret Knives Of Chefs: Bob Kramer’s Legendary Knives & 6 Chefs’ Favorite Blades (HUFFINGTON POST)
3. Gourmet Brand to Return to Print—As Special Newsstand-Only Issues (FOLIO)
4. Egg industry resorts to blaming the victim in recall, critics say (USA TODAY)
5. In Iowa Egg Country: Stench, Suspicion, and Fear (ATLANTIC)
6. Top Chef Wins Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program (EATER)
7. Kangaroo testicle? Chefs in Serbia say, ‘Yes!’ (AP)
8. Sorry, You Absolutely Cannot Eat These Animals in New York State (GRUB STREET)
9. The Obamas’ Unscheduled Po’ Boy Lunch Stop At New Orleans’ Parkway Bakery And Tavern (HUFFINGTON POST)
10. What makes us human? Bringing food to a funeral (REUTERS)