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

1. Tomato School: Undoing the Evils of the Fields by Barry Estabrook (THE ATLANTIC)
2. Why being a foodie isn’t ‘elitist’ by Eric Schlosser (WASHINGTON POST)
3. Menupoems 2011 (ALIMENTUM JOURNAL)
4. A novel renews the Friendship Bread frenzy by Linda Cicero McClatchy (HERALD EXTRA)
5. The king of cookbooks: Tom Staz has sold cooking guides for 20 years at the flea market by B. Stump (DELMARVANOW)
6. A Food Writer’s Worst-Case Scenarios by Gilda Claudine Karasik (HONEST COOKING)

A roundup of new products:

1. The Chef’s Sleeve for the iPad (THE KITCHN)
2. 30 Gadgets for the Modern Kitchen (HOUSE BEAUTIFUL)
3. Crime Scene Pot Trivet (ANIMICA USA)
4. Authentic Southern (or French/Italian/Mexican) Vintage Style Kitchen Signs (ETSY)
5. Steel Cheese Spreader (UNCOMMON GOODS)
6. Bicycle Wine Rack (COOL MATERIAL)

res·tau·rant [res-ter-uhnt, -tuh-rahnt, -trahnt] – noun an establishment where meals are served to customers…

1. National Restaurant Association: 75 Mil. Expected To Dine Out Mother’s Day (PERISHABLE NEWS)
2. Open Carry Gun Dinner Held at Blue Pointe in Detroit (FOX DETROIT)
3. Is OpenTable becoming too expensive for restaurants? (SF GATE)
4. Pronunciation Chant with the staff at San Francisco’s Locanda – VIDEO (LOCANDA SF)
5. Bill allows big Oregon wineries to operate restaurants (OREGON LIVE)
6. U.S. restaurants weigh menu price increases (REUTERS)

On the reception menu…

1. Canapés For All! Check Out The Menu For The Royal Wedding Reception! (PEREZ HILTON)
2. The Black Widow Speaks Out on Hot Dog Prize Disparity (EATER)
3. Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Achieves Gender Equality (GRUB STREET)
4. World’s Best Pizza: Here’s our listing of some of the most delicious pizzas the world over (YAHOO!)
5. Sea salt confuses Americans, but then, so does wine (LA TIMES)
6. Writer of Pro-McDonald’s Stories Has Connections to (You Guessed It) McDonald’s (GRUB STREET)

Guilty Pleasures…

1. Clumsy beer thief with droopy drawers caught on security video (ORLANDO SENTINEL)
2. To catch a gourmet food thief (THE STAR)
3. Drunk man arrested for grabbing restaurant manager, eating other patron’s food (SEATTLE PI)
4. Feds Raid NYC Stores for Illegal Chocolate Eggs (FOX NEWS)
5. Vegetable Garden At The County Jail (BUFFALO RIVER REVIEW)
6. Jury Acquits Man Of 99-Cent Hot Dog Theft (HUFFINGTON POST)