The Chef Recommends:

1. Napa chefs sow their own meals at former Copia (SF GATE)
2. Jamie Oliver & Pregnant Jools Toast 10th Year Wedding Anniversary (DAILY MAIL)
3. Jamie Oliver’s Creative New Venture: Thirty-Minute Meals (YUM SUGAR)
4. Leah Chase: Queen of Creole Cuisine (PETER GREENBERG)
5. Mario Batali Sued: Former Workers Sue Chef (Get it?)(CBS NEWS)
6. Mario Batali’s legal problems could mount (CRAINS)
7. Chef Morimoto Does Napa (GLOBE & MAIL)
8. Chef Gordon Ramsay is looking for Staten Island’s ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ (SILIVE)
9. Late night eats with Chicago chefs (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES)
10. Standing the heat of the kitchen: The rise of women chefs in the Kingdom (ARAB NEWS)

A Baker’s Dozen:

1. New books examine extremes of Japanese cuisine (INDEPENDENT)
2. Advertising watchdog finds Burger King guilty of telling a whopper over serving size (DAILY MAIL)
3. Tesco warned over ‘misleading’ bread advert (TELEGRAPH)
4. Elton John Postpones Gig Due to Food Poisoning (SPINNER)
5. Book Review: ’97 Orchard’ delves into the cuisine of tenement America (USA TODAY)
6. Lindsay Lohan gifted junk food in jail (HOLLYWOOD NEWS)
7. Film Review: A fish-out-of-water tale with extra calories (JAPAN TIMES)
8. Classic novel a primer in Southern cooking (POST TRIBUNE)
9. More Drama At Chuck E. Cheese! (PEREZ HILTON)
10. Report asserts Mexican women exploited by US crab industry (AFP)
11. Colorado man delivers pizza and saves heart attack victim (REUTERS)
12. Mary Engelbreit’s Fan Fare Cookbook (ORLANDO SENTINEL)
13. ‘Cheese diplomacy’ making progress in Caucasus (TODAY’S ZAMAN)

The Chef Recommends…

1. Chef Scott Conant Questions His Multi-Restaurant Dining Habits (GRUB STREET)
2. The incredible story of how a civil rights chef inspired a hit Disney film (DAILY RECORD)
3. San Francisco’s Own Celebrity Chef Tyler Florence Joins Milk Mustache Mobile Tour to Celebrate Family Dinner (PR NEWSWIRE)
4. Todd English’s Sliders, Other Signature Snacks at New Food Court (CBS NEWS)
5. Chef Chronicles: Daniel Scherotter, Palio d’Asti (SF GATE)
6. More than 200 people enjoy cuisine from Emeril Lagasse at Hearst Castle Dinner (KSBY)

DO YOU PLAN your vacations around food?

If so, you’re a culinary tourist — and these links are for you!

1. San Francisco Embarcadero spots with good food, views (SF GATE)
2. Bulgaria to Attract Tourist with Gourmet Food and Churches (STANDART)
3. Great Guidebooks for Traveling Foodies (SALLY’S PLACE)
4. Looking for food in all the right places (in Albany, New York) (DEMOCRAT HERALD)
5. A City Full of Tasty Fares: Where Is the Best-Loved, Least-Known Cuisine in the City? Ask a Taxi Driver (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
6. Houston’s Historic Restaurant Signs (HOUSTON PRESS)

Would you like fries with that shake?

1. The Eating of the Minds (ATLANTIC)
2. Tons of Bushmeat in Paris, Study Finds (HUFFINGTON POST)
3. Thomas Keller at the 2010 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen (YUM SUGAR)
4. Bomb Scare Caused By Messy Box Of Ribs (HUFFINGTON POST)
5. Wait, bananas grow in Iceland?! (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR)
6. The Nine Countries with the Worst Cuisine in the World (HUFFINGTON POST)
7. Subway in the sky atop NY ground zero construction (AP)
8. Italy raises alarm over blue mozzarella (BBC)
9. The Cookbooks of Summer (THE NEW YORKER)
10. Al Yeganeh, the Soup Man, Will Reopen His Original Shop (NEW YORK TIMES)