Learn more about the food you eat with these tasty links…

1. Is Corned Beef Really Irish? (SMITHSONIAN)
2. Irish Blaas Bridge Old Traditions, New Cuisine (ZESTER DAILY)
3. Robert C. Baker: The Man Who Invented Chicken Nuggets (SLATE)
4. One Pot Cooking (PRESS DEMOCRAT)
5. Rob Rhinhart No Longer Requires Food (VICE)
6. Is Quinoa Bed for Bolivian and Peruvian Farmers? Ignore the Media’s Hand Wringing (SLATE)
7. Girl Drinks: A history of sweet cocktails for ladies, on the occasion of the Cosmopolitan’s 25th anniversary (SLATE)
8. Guy Crosby on Understanding and Enhancing the Flavor of Food (GASTRONOMY AT BU)
9. Seven Deadly Reasons to Stay Away from Soda (MARCUSS SAMUELSSON)
10. Service (ON THE TABLE)

A roundup of new products:

1. Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking (AMAZON)
2. Reisenthel EasyBag (THE KITCHN)
3. Belgium to Introduce Postage Stamps That Taste Like Chocolate (MASHABLE)
4. Lay’s Chicken & Waffles, Cheesy Garlic Bread And Sriracha Battle To Be America’s Next Potato Chip Flavor (IB TIMES)
5. How about Some Soda with Your Cereal? Mountain Dew Rolls Out Juice-Like Breakfast Drink (TIME)
6. No Flame, No Problem: Meet the Electric Fondue Pot (AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN)
7. Oprah Stirred By New T-Fal Cooking Machine (ABC NEWS)
8. World’s first edible spray paint transforms a plain meal into a feast of colour (DAILY MAIL)
9. Hoffy® Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs (SQUARE BRANDS)
10. AriZona Beverages Rolls Out New Chocolate Fudge Drink (FOOD PROCESSING)

DO YOU PLAN your vacations around food? If so, you’re a culinary tourist — and these links are for you!

1. Los Angeles Kosher: Beyond Corned Beef and a Knish (NY TIMES)
2. A Gourmet Taste of the Literary Wonders of Paris (HELLO MAGAZINE)
3. Travelers Discover Healthier Ways of Eating On The Road (WLTX)
4. Rome Bans Food and Drinks in Bid to Preserve Ancient Landmarks (TIME)
5. Tour de Eats: Food Crawl around Honolulu (HONOLULU MAGAZINE)
6. Countries Like Morocco Take Time To Discover (NY TIMES)

Bottoms Up…

1. Budweiser Gets A Facelift (PEREZ HILTON)
2. Brut or sweet? Spain gets electronic ‘tongue’ to taste cava (CNN)
3. Behind the Drink: The $13 Cocktail – VIDEO (VIMEO)
4. Vermouth 101 (VERMOUTH 101)
5. SkinnyGirl Cocktails Pulled From Whole Foods! (FIT PEREZ)
6. Vodka Nation: How the flavorless, colorless, odorless spirit became a billion-dollar business (WEEKLY STANDARD)

A roundup of new products:

1. Rick Bayless unveils a granola collaboration with Milk & Honey (TIME OUT CHICAGO)
2. Flavour Gallery: Fashion Label For Foodies (HONEST COOKING)
3. Sticky Fingers: Transform drinks–and more–with Jo Snow Syrups (TASTING TABLE)
4. Dark Chocolate Mallo Cups (BOYER CANDIES)
5. MYdrap: Cotton Table Linens on a Roll (DAILY GROMMET)