À la carte…

1. Cook Like a Moomin (THE FOOD SECTION)
2. Japanese Sushi Students Aim for a Job Overseas (NEW YORK TIMES)
3. East India Company Reborn – VIDEO (CNN)
4. Banker Builds a Candy Business in Bits and Pieces (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
5. Sotheby’s Puts Veggies on the Block (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
6. Zagat Fast Food Survey Rates 136 Major Dining Chains From Breakfast to Burgers, Dessert to Drive-Thrus (PR NEWSWIRE)

Bottoms Up!

1. Flavorpill’s Official Mad Men Drinking Game (FLAVORWIRE)
2. The Best Gimmicks in Beer (ATLANTIC)
3. The Evolution of Sonoma Coast Chardonnay (NEW YORK TIMES)
4. America’s Best Adventure Bars (OUTSIDE)
5. ‘Jersey Shore’ cast member Ronnie Ortiz-Magro’s ‘Ron-Ron Juice’ hits Miami cocktail menus (NY DAILY NEWS)
6. Alcohol Drinkers Shift Sipping Sites to Home (CHICAGO TRIBUNE)
7. The Great Outdoors: Everything you need to drink alfresco (LIQUOR.COM)
8. Harold McGee, Food Science Guru, Turns His Attention to Serious Drinking (POPSCI)
9. Death in the South Pacific: This new tiki-style punch was the official cocktail of the 2010 Tales of the Cocktail conference in New Orleans (WASHINGTON POST)
10. With these Jelly Belly Cocktail Candies, It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere (FOOD PROCESSING)

A Baker’s Dozen:

1. Why Cookbooks Matter in a Digital Age (SACRAMENTO BEE)
2. Top Ten Foods That Can Get You High (MIAMI NEW TIMES)
3. Blue Plate Special – The Splendid Table’s Lynne Rossetto Kasper – AUDIO (EDIBLE RADIO)
4. A Pop-Tart Shop in New York City and Making “Pop-Tarts” at Home (EPICURIOUS)
5. Is Cameron sniffy about mustard? British PM may have blown his chances with the American public by ordering a plain hot dog (GUARDIAN)
6. ‘Milka Creme Eggs’ and smaller bars? Exodus from Cadbury as fears grow over break from tradition (MAIL ONLINE)
7. How to never make the same-old, same-old salad again (SALON)
8. Coppola’s New Geyserville Restaurant: Interior and Menu (EATER)
9. ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey’ by Richard C. Morais: Slumdog sous-chef (PHILLY.COM)
10. TV Cook Survives Violent Head-On Collision (TMZ)
11. What’s Lurking in Your Stadium Food? (ESPN)
12. Kitchen Nightmares Now Accepting Nominations for Failing S.F. Restaurants (SF WEEKLY)
13. The curious case of Brad Pitt and the curry house (THE DOMINIAN POST)

Guilty Pleasures…

1. Pharmacy Burglars Get Candy, Not Pills: Store Owner Planted M&Ms In Hydrocodone Bottles (KOKO)
2. Chart showing prison diet at Robben Island (YFROG)
3. Santa Rosa producer fined $15,000 for noncompliance with organic standards (LAKE COUNTY NEWS)
4. Food Thief aka Barefoot Bandit exposed as capture brings joy and dismay (GUARDIAN)
5. Weymouth stabbing: Chef jailed for four years (THIS IS DORSET)
6. Concealed camera found in restaurant restroom, employee charged (SANTA MARIA TIMES)

Would you like fries with that shake?

1. LeBron James — The Coldest Cut of All (TMZ)
2. Beauty & The Feast (VOGUE)
3. Big burgers ‘should be dropped’ as risk to jaw, warn Taiwan’s dentists (TELEGRAPH)
4. Europe Seeks to Ban Food From Clones (NY TIMES)
5. Chatting with Food Network Kid in a Candy Store Adam Gertler (SLASH FOOD)
6. Filmmaker in Dole case: I was never a ‘yes man’ (AP)