Happy New Year to All!

1. Best of 2009 – VIDEO (VENDRTV)
2. Scripps Pulls Food Network, HGTV From Cablevision: Affects 3 Million Subscribers In NY, NJ, Conn. (MULTICHANNEL)
3. Photo Gallery: Say Goodbye to Tavern on the Green (CANADA.COM)
4. Raging Alcoholics: The Greatest Hollywood Boozers Ever – VIDEO (NATIONAL ENQUIRER)
5. Washington D.C. Slaps Fee on Plastic Shopping Bags (AFP)
6. Russia decides to ban U.S. poultry imports (REUTERS)
7. Schnitzel fit for a king: A fast food restaurant in Duesseldorf sells schnitzels coated in truffles and goldleaf for a mere 150 euros – VIDEO (REUTERS)
8. Heirloom seeds used by African-Americans and brought to this country from Africa/Carribean featured in D. Landreth Seed Company’s 2010 catalog (BALTIMORE SUN)
9. Contemporary Comestibles Quiz: A Fond Farewell (for Now) (EPICURIOUS)
10. Inventor of McDonald’s Quarter Pounder Passes Away at Age 81 (OAKLAND TRIBUNE)
11. Indian Food Curries Favor With Americans (ABC NEWS)
12. For Domino’s, It’s Mea (Pizza) Culpa, New Pie For New Year (NPR)

All you can eat:

1. You Are What You Eat On New Year’s! (INVENTOR SPOT)
2. For Flay & Co., White House garden variety on ‘Iron Chef’ (USA TODAY)
3. Restaurants Put a Cork in Wine Fees to Attract Customers (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
4. Livelihoods: Street food vending (puri) in urban India – VIDEO (ZENRAINMAN)
5. Why can’t US pig farmers profit from the pork revolution? (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR)
6. Mountain Dew and Pepsi Throwback bring real sugar back to sodas once again (CRUNCHGEAR)

Delicious new recipes from web resources:

1. Nigella’s Glitzy Chocolate Puddings (COOKSTR)
2. Fontina Risotto with Chicken (FREEP.COM)
3. Gwyneth Paltrow’s Irish Meow Cocktail (HUFFINGTON POST)
4. Bitter orange and cardamom martinis (DAILY MAIL)
5. Hoppin’ John: A New Year’s Tradition (HULIQ)
6. Pulled Pork Sandwich Platter (GMA)
7. Bjorn Andersson’s Swedish Meatballs (COMPETITOR)
8. Alton Brown’s Squid Vicious (BUFFALO NEWS)
9. Lobster Mac ‘n’ Cheese (NEW JERSEY NEWSROOM)
10. Belgian Chocolate Walnut Fudge (SEATTLE TIMES)

Bottoms Up!

1. Ten New Year’s Eve Cocktails (SERIOUS EATS)
2. On Thinking & Drinking (INTELLIGENT LIFE)
3. UK Food lovers nominate 10 best chefs of the next decade (TELEGRAPH)
4. Coffee Worth Traveling For (THE ATLANTIC)
5. Belfast restaurant sorry after rodent runs past diners (BELFAST TELEGRAPH)
6. Issue 9 of Taste, from the Culinary Institute of America, is now available online
7. Forget piles of pasta and dustbin-lid sized pizza: The small but beautiful secret of Venetian cuisine has arrived (THE INDEPENDENT)
8. Visit the Tsingtao Beer Museum in Quingdao (BUSINESS TRAVELER)
9. Ten Food Trends of the Future (SLASH FOOD)
10. No bull: chill-out drinks challenge buzzy brands (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD)
11. Ten super foods for top health (NT NEWS)
12. One Apartment, 60 Lbs. of Pork: Annual feast brings new meaning to phrase ‘pigging out’ (WEST SIDE SPIRITY)

It’ll tickle yore innards…

1. Mountain Dew leads to burglary arrests (TIMES TRIBUNE)
2. Former NY Giants star Plaxico Burress will ring in 2010 with an incarceration-approved portion of chicken and gravy (TMZ)
3. Unpalatable whines: Restaurant complaints we hate (CHICAGO TRIBUNE)
4. McDonald’s Japan offers new American burgers (MTV IGGY)
5. Iconic Burger Bar’s grill goes cold (TRICITIES.COM)
6. Truffle Breakfast, $67,000 Bordeaux Entice at Arnault Hotel (BLOOMBERG)