DO YOU PLAN your vacations around food? If so, you’re a culinary tourist — and these links are for you!

1. A Guide to 18 of the Best Po’ Boys in Treme’s New Orleans (EATER)
2. The world’s most savory airport restaurants (MSNBC)
3. Burgers, Beer, and Breakfast: An American Food Road Trip (THE ATLANTIC)
4. Acquiring a Taste for the Spice of Life: A Trip to Vietnam Is a Recipe for Adventure: One Part Cooking Sessions, One Part History Lessons (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
5. 24-Hour San Francisco Eateries Satisfy Post-Midnight Cravings (SF WEEKLY)
6. The artistry of food: Mole poblano and chiles en nogada have their own festivals in Puebla, food capital of Mexico’s interior (MIAMI HERALD)

Delicious new recipes from Internet resources:

1. Cantaloupe & Crab Soup (NPR)
2. Broccoli Stalks with Lemon (NY TIMES)
3. Corn Ice Cream Shortcakes with Blueberry Compote (BELLINGHAM HERALD)
4. Grilled Asparagus With Haloumi (HONEST COOKING)
5. Lamb Spiedino With Cucumber Salad (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
6. Mark Gaier and Clark Frasier’s Classic Lobster Rolls – VIDEO (ABC NEWS)
7. Watermelon Gazpacho (NY TIMES)
8. Belly-Button Ricotta Gnocchi in a Sage Burnt Butter Sauce (GIANNI.TV)
9. Fried Ice Cream (NAPLES NEWS)
10. Carolina-Style Pulled Pork (FOOD & WINE)

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

1. Creator of Jim’s Pancakes Website Shares Amazing Pancake Recipes in Book – VIDEO (SHOPPING BLOG)
2. Breakfast of Champions (LAPHAMS QUARTERLY)
3. Chez Panisse at Forty (DAVID LEBOVITZ)
4. Bloomberg’s Tom Keene Eats Breakfast on Live Radio, Is Very Specific About His Cocktails (GRUB STREET)
5. Determined cook is hand-copying her recipes recovered after Katrina (NOLA)
6. Valerie Bertinelli to release cookbook (USA TODAY)
7. Retro Recipes: David Rees on Cooking With Dead Celebrities (GRUB STREET)
8. The Year’s 10 Best Cookbooks (DETAILS)
9. The Placenta Cookbook: For a growing number of new mothers, there’s no better nutritional snack after childbirth than the fruit of their own labor (NY MAG)
10. Flagging Down the Waiter: A Modest Proposal (TIME)
11. Gravity One-Sixth, Or Dinner on the Moon: A trip to a fictional restaurant in the future (FOOD REPUBLIC)
12. The Waitressing Life: The Honor of a Second-Class Profession (THE ATLANTIC)

À la carte…

1. When Rock Stars Sell Out, Deliciously (CHOW)
2. Frank Bruni Scolds Anthony Bourdain For Dissing Paula Deen (GOTHAMIST)
3. Bam! How Culinary Culture Became a Pop Phenomenon - SLIDE SHOW (TIME)
4. Food fight finito (NY POST)
5. Former Chez Panisse chef opens “whole beast” artisan butcher shop in heart of Berkeley (SF GATE)
6. East Coast burger joint to In-N-Out: ‘We are livid’ (OC REGISTER)
7. What storm? Make-up free Gwyneth Paltrow holds New York book signing despite hurricane warnings (DAILY MAIL)
8. Report Says Half of U.S. Adults Will Be Obese by 2030; Calls For Government Action (IB TIMES)
9. Celebrity chef Alice Waters creates T-Shirts with Levi’s (INDEPENDENT)
10. PEEPS & COMPANY Store to Open at Mall of America (FOOD BEAST)
11. Now Nigella is the new naked chef (DAILY MAIL)
12. Joey Vento, Founder of Cheese-Steak Institution, Dies at 71 (NY TIMES)

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

1. Squirrel pasties on menu at West Wales restaurant (WALES ONLINE)
2. Restaurant makes largest mutton rotisserie (KHALEEJ TIMES)
3. The French Laundry, a £250-a-head pop-up restaurant coming to London (TELEGRAPH)
4. Chez Panisse’s birthday kicks off with party to remember (BERKELEYSIDE)
5. Chez Panisse staff and fans celebrate 40 years of Alice’s restaurant (WASHINGTON POST)
6. Should restaurants ban cellphones? (USA TODAY)