Guilty Pleasures…

1. This thief may need a very large baked potato (TBO.COM)
2. Uniform Leads to Hate Crime Against Pink Teacup Waiter (EATER)
3. Yelp extortion suit tossed out by San Francisco judge (SF GATE)
4. Ghost Town Farm Under Siege (ZAGAT)
5. Baby formula is staple of theft rings (USA TODAY)
6. French vegans in dock over baby’s death (BREIT BART)

On the menu…

1. PETA Activists Urge a Vegan Makeover for San Francisco’s Tenderloin (NY TIMES)
2. Italian Mammas Put Meals on Wheels, Say ‘Mangia!’ to Faraway Offspring (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
3. Alice Scraps Greek Theater Plan for Chez Panisse Anniversary (GRUB STREET)
4. Sarah Gim’s servings of virtual food prove irresistible (LA TIMES)
5. AOL Axes Slashfood, Its Six-Year-Old Food Blog (EATER)
6. Wedding cake is life-size replica of bride (METRO)

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

1. Day of Honey: The unifying sweetness of food by Annia Ciezadlo - RECIPES (NPR)
2. Klee Owner Rails Against Discount Dining With Poetry (EATER)
3. Perishable, It Said by Jane Hirshfeld (POETRY FOUNDATION)
4. Review: Memoir — Matters of taste by Naomi Duguida (THE GLOBE & MAIL)
5. The Ravenous and Resourceful Sandra Lee by Benjamin Wallace (NY MAGAZINE)
6. Eva Longoria to release cooking book with Mexican food recipes by Iain Alexander (FILM INDUSTRY NETWORK)
7. In Defense of Bacon: What Denny’s Doesn’t Get by Josh Ozersky (TIME)
8. Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems (GOOD.FOOD.STORIES.
9. Pro: Modernist cuisine skeptics just don’t get it by Rob Mifsud (GLOBE & MAIL)
10. On the Road by Julian Brunt (OKRA)

Delicious new recipes from Internet resources:

1. Pineapple-Braised Pork Sandwiches (CHOW)
2. Magic Mesquite Tamales (AUDUBON)
3. Hot and sour tamarind chicken soup (GUARDIAN)
4. Flat Roasted Honey Lemon Chicken with Asparagus and Roasted Garlic (VANCOUVER SUN)
5. Irish Potato Pancakes (CHOW)
6. Pasta Risotto (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
7. Grilled Cheese and Short Rib Sandwiches with Pickled Caramelized Onions and Arugula (BON APPETIT)
8. Piedmontese Peppers from At Elizabeth David’s Table (SERIOUS EATS)
9. Oysters Bingo (HOME)
10. Kentucky Bourbon Beef Tenderloin (KENTUCKY BARRELS)

The Chef Recommends…

1. Scott Simpson: Seattle chef, burger man, creative genius, dead at 38 (SEATTLE TIMES)
2. Gordon Ramsay accused of asking irrelevant personal info of applicants to his Kitchen Nightmares USA show (MIRROR)
3. Five Questions for Roy Choi (LA TIMES)
4. Wonder Bread: David Burke Salutes You (NORTH JERSEY)
5. Queen’s Chef Has Royal Wedding Feast In Store (SKY)
6. Boulud expands into casual cuisine (REUTERS)
7. Celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson launches food website for men (INDEPENDENT)
8. Pastry Chef Profile: Melissa Chou of San Francisco’s Aziza (SF GATE)
9. Top chef, Paul Boscue, with huge legacy credits staff, diners (AJC)
10. Charlie Trotter, a Leader Left Behind (NEW YORK TIMES)