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

1. Alton Brown on Eating Purple Vegetables, the State of Cooking TV and Why You Shouldn’t Say Hi to Him When He’s at a Urinal (PAPER MAG)
2. Technology Changes the Once Simple Cookbook (USA TODAY)
3. Emilio Estevez: From Repo Man to Vino Man (BON APPETIT)
4. Julia Child e-book lacks flavor: 50th anniversary of French cookbook loses something special in translation (CHICAGO TRIBUNE)
5. Jacques Pepin’s Best French Classics (FOOD & WINE)
6. Don’t Worry About the Future of the Cookbook (SF WEEKLY)

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)

On the menu…

1. Wonder Bread Celebrates 90th Anniversary (PR NEWSWIRE)
2. Cannabis Cuisine Ok’d in Australia (SLASH FOOD)
3. The New Bacon: Pancetta, Guanciale and More (MERCURY NEWS)
4. The New Pepsi Bottle is 100-Percent Plant Based (SLASH FOOD)
5. The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Food (FAST COMPANY)
6. 15 Major Fast Food Failures – SLIDE SHOW (CNBC)

The blue plate special…

1. Give Chickpeas a Chance (NPR)
2. Batali Fires All Burners: Next for the chef: a Singapore eatery, a New York grocery, grandmas on TV (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
3. Cobra Snake Hamburgers – SLIDE SHOW (CNN)
4. Table Scraps: Food & Drink News You Might’ve Missed (HUFFINGTON POST)
5. Italians unveil anti-aging ‘super tomato’ (ANSA.IT)
6. For Some, Restaurant Smells an Invisible Menace (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
7. How Sweet It Is: Our Top Ten Finds at the Retail Confectioners International Show (FOOD CHANNEL)
8. Penis cucumber saved from the chop (METRO)
9. A Brief Photographic History Of Gulf Seafood Since The Oil Spill (HUFFINGTON POST)
10. Fuchsia Dunlop reviews Fu 1088, Shanghai (FINANCIAL TIMES)
11. Dr Pepper orders sugar for 125th anniversary (AP)
12. Is World-Class Eater a Starving Artist? (WALL STREET JOURNAL)