A Baker’s Dozen:

1. Asia’s Most Expensive Cup of Coffee: Beijing (FORBES)
2. Art You Can Eat (HUFFINGTON POST)
3. Which came first? Crème brûlée or burnt cream? UK claims French classic as its own (MAIL ONLINE)
4. Katie Holmes’s Special On-Set Delivery: Cupcakes (PEOPLE)
5. EVOO and Yummo! 30 Minute Meals is America’s Favorite Cooking Show (HARRIS POLLS)
6. Foods to Get You in the Mood (FOX)
7. Get Ready for Eva Longoria as Food Critic on ‘The Next Food Network Star’ (POP EATER)
8. Burger King to launch kids’ breakfast meal  (LA TIMES)
9. New York Begins Restaurant Grades (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
10. Rise of the machines: Coke bets on Freestyle growth (AJC)
11. Jimmy Brennan, member of famed French Quarter restaurant family, dead at 70 (WWLTV)
12. Whole Foods Versus Shoplifters: The Conundrum (CHICAGO MAG)
13. Dornbracht’s Global Street Food Exhibit (ELLE DECOR)

Hot out of the oven…

1. Cartoon Exposes the Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods in ‘Invasion of the Frankenfood’ – VIDEO (PR WEB)
2. Gas-tronomy: We get pumped up over the food dished out at 5 filling stations (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER)
3. Ten UK Gastropubs with Michelin Stars (TIMES ONLINE)
4. Catch the Qualifiers for the Culinary Olympics (GRUB STREET)
5. Concerns over soda lead to shrinking – AUDIO (MARKETPLACE)
6. Delicate Dungeness: Know what to look for in a crab feed before plunking down your money (PRESS DEMOCRAT)
   
7. Feeding Bulgarians Fresh Bread: the Dutch Baker in Sofia (SNA)
8. Place Your Bets: 40 Gut-Busting Restaurant Challenges for Free Food (COUPON SHERPA)
9. Aw shucks, Harpoon’s brewing oyster beer (BOSTON HERALD)
10. How DO they make Cadburys Creme Eggs? (DAILY MAIL)
11. Heightened Concern Over BTA (NY TIMES)
12. Bouchon in Beverly Hills: Thomas Keller makes a triumphant return to the L.A. area with a contemporary, sophisticated bistro (LA TIMES)

On the pantry shelf…

1. Bringing Sophistication to the Kitchen: A profile of Williams Sonoma’s Founder – VIDEO (CBS)
2. Cultivating Failure: Alice Water’s Edible Schoolyard Program (THE ATLANTIC)
3. Chicken fight is on at KFC (NEW YORK POST)
4. A more mellow Bourdain: With young daughter in his life, bad-boy chef, author, TV host ‘less angry’ these days (PRESS DEMOCRAT)
   
5. Sushi fashion (SUSHI LIFE)
6. Michael Pollan Forages for Chanterelles, Doesn’t Sweat Unsustainable Sushi (GRUB STREET)
7. Obsessives: Cookbook peddler Nach Waxman is the owner of Manhattan’s Kitchen Arts & Letters – VIDEO (CHOW)
8. Revenge of the mistresses: Ramsay’s hooks up with Tiger’s (NEW YORK POST)
9. German chef jailed for butchering colleague (9 NEWS)
10. Filmed in Dominica, this clip demonstrates how to make a Creole, rum-pumpkin cocktail – VIDEO (FOOD TUBE)
11. Coke-powered Nokia cellphone concept by Daizi Zheng (THE DESIGN BLOG)
12. The Harper’s Index: Food (HARPERS)

I’ll drink to that:

1. Wine, Women and Song: Kermit Lynch sings the blues (TASTING TABLE)
2. McNuggets Rage: Mug shot of woman who put fist through drive-thru window over chicken beef (SMOKING GUN)
3. It’s National Whipped Cream Day! (OC WEEKLY)
4. Chocolate Gravy? Why not? (SAVEUR)
5. Gioia & Julia: Apron ties that bind Child to Goodrum (VERDE NEWS)
6. Ada’s chocolate and nut brownies: She was a fabulous baker — but then again, her adman husband (and boss) didn’t leave her much choice (SALON)
7. Rick Bayless heading to LA (EATER)
8. From Heather Mills to Roger Moore: Celebrities’ odd food science debunked (TIMES ONLINE)
9. Santa Monica’s Food Truck Lot a Rousing Success on Day One, but Shut Down by City on Day Two (LAIST)
10. What can I get you folks? Policing customer theft (SLASH FOOD)
11. R.W. Apple’s wife prepares to auction the legendary reporter’s wine collection (WASHINGTON POST)
12. Warren Buffett’s Kraft Stance Conjures Coke’s Quaker Retreat (BLOOMBERG)

The daily specials:

1. Book review: Au Revoir to All That: Food, Wine, and the End of France by Michael Steinberger (AMERICAN SPECTATOR)
2. Pizzeria supervisor among America’s worst bosses (CHAIN LEADER)
3. Private Chefs Make a Comeback — and Get a TV Show (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
4. 100 best things to eat and drink in New York City (TIME OUT)
5. Top 25 Food-Related Quotes Of The Past Decade (CITY OF ATE)
6. Ten Really Cool Food Tattoos (DAILY FORK)
7. Hitting the Sauce | Thomas Keller’s Caramel Recipe (THE NEW YORK TIMES)
8. Coming to L.A.: The Ketel One Canteen food truck (THE LA TIMES)
9. Restaurant of the Future? (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
10. Costco Will Resume Carrying Coca-Cola (FOOD MANUFACTURING)
11. Sayonara: Wendy’s Pulling out of Japan (THE MOTLEY FOOL)
12. Elvis American Diner to be Opened in Tbilisi (GEORGIAN TIMES)