A roundup of new products:

1. Bazura Bags Lunch Totes (LEITE’S CULINARIA)
2. A New Creamy and Crunchy Peanut Butter From Planters (GROCERY.COM)
3. Pit Boss BBQ Toolbelt (COOL MATERIAL)
4. Spam Lip Balm (FOOD BEAST)
5. Baby Fortune Cookie Slippers (UNCOMMON GOODS)
6. Set of 12 Custom Fortune Cookies with Text… Whatever You Want- up to 16 letters each… Made to Order (ETSY)

All cheese, all the time…

1. American Goat Cheese: From Hippie Chick To Hip And Chic (NPR)
2.  Promontory makes for a creamy snack (SF GATE)
3. The Producer: Puglia Cheese (TIMES LIVE)
4. UK Readers’ favourite cheese revealed (TELEGRAPH)
5. No cheesehead for anti-cheese Grim Reaper in Wis. (GOOGLE)
6. Artist creates cheese portraits (TORONTO SUN)

Learn more about the food you eat with these tasty links…

1. Great Moments in Twinkies History (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
2. No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: The Red Cloud Indian School (GOURMET)
3. Politics of the Plate: The Price of Tomatoes – PDF (POLITICS OF THE PLATE)
4. Lobster Palace Society (EDWARDIAN PROMENADE)
5. Apples And Pears Can Reduce Stroke Risk By 52% (MEDICAL NEWS TODAY)
6. The gold of arganeraie: 33 Moroccan recipes
   based on argan oil – PDF (SLOW FOOD FOUNDATION)
7. The Food Movement: Its Power and Possibilities (THE NATION)
8. Sampling the Tastes of the Civil War (NY TIMES)
9. How the tables turned in 18th-century France (INDEPENDENT)
10. Amish funeral… potatoes?! (OUR FRIEND BEN)

À la carte…

1. Yum! to sell Long John Silver’s, A&W to franchisees (NRN)
2. Community Oven no half-baked idea (POST INDEPENDENT)
3. Arch West, Frito-Lay exec who created first national tortilla chip brand, dead at 97 (WASHINGTON POST)
4. The New Spanish Scent That’s Good Enough to Eat (TIME)
5. Obese People Now Outnumber The Hungry Globally (FRIENDS EAT)
6. ‘The Chew’ review: ABC’s new daytime food talk show tough to swallow (NY DAILY NEWS)

Guilty pleasures…

1. Nicolas Cage awoken by naked man with Fudgesicle (REUTERS)
2. Publisher Really Burns Chefs’ Cookies (COURTHOUSE NEWS)
3. Man will not kill wife for not cooking egg: Bombay HC (BHASKAR)
4. The Death Penalty’s Last Meal of Troy Davis (THE FASTER TIMES)
5. Midwest Farmers Are on Alert Against Pig Thieves (NY TIMES)
6. Four busted for lobster felonies (KEYS NET)
7. Slapped over less salt in food, man slit employer’s throat (INDIAN EXPRESS)
8. Man who nailed bacon to mosque door walks free (SHIELDS GAZETTE)
9. Homeowner finds burglar frying bacon in kitchen (BDT ONLINE)
10. Man Sues White Castle Because He Can’t Fit In Seats (FIT PEREZ)
11. Men Smirk, Eat Candy While Receiving Sentence (NBC NEWS)
12. Man Calls 911 After Walking Up To Drive-Through, Denied Food (WFTV)