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1. You’ve got some (Reggae Reggae) sauce, Levi: Dragons’ Den entrepreneur said recipe was family secret, but was it? (MAIL ONLINE)
2. Which Food Stories Tempted You Most This Year? (NPR)
3. Colonial Dinner Parties Meant Cocktails, Conversation – AUDIO (NPR)
4. Conflict Cookery (THE NATIONAL)
5. Holey bread tips: Do you need to knead? (CULINATE)
6. 2009 Blooper Reel – VIDEO (HOW2HEROES)
7. Kraft Makes a Bet on At-Home Eating: Will Introduce 20 New Restaurant-Inspired Products in 2010 (ADVERTISING AGE)
8. Feeding The Hungry – How You And Your Children Can Make A Difference For A Food Pantry (CHICAGO NOW)
9. Sharing the dough: Dunkin’ Brands giving sweet payoffs for new openings (NY POST)
10. Food Porn for Men (DOUBLEX)

1. Carl Hartman reviews Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York by William Grimes (former Times food critic).
2. Washington Post Staff Writer Joe Yonan reports that Jonathan Safran Foer’s first non-fiction offering, Eating Animals, brings “another round of scrutiny — and a new demographic of reader — to the kinds of farms that, as he puts it, ‘treat living animals like dead ones.’”
3. Martin Rubin, writing for The Washington Times, notes Jason Epstein’s Eating: A Memoir makes “a reader’s mouth water as Mr. Epstein remembers wonderful meals he ate in Paris on his honeymoon in 1954.”
4. CBS News visits cookbook editor Judith Jones — author of The Pleasures of Cooking for One.
5. Writing for the Telegraph, Aileen Reid lists nine new cookery books perfect for holiday gift giving.