A Baker’s Dozen…

1. Can the Pizza Burger Claim a Place in Burger King’s Fast Food Court? (TIME)
2. Dubai Camel Milk Producers Hope To Export ‘Camelicious’ Brand (HUFFINGTON POST)
3. Eight Misleading Food Label Terms Every Eater Should Know (FOOD CHANGE.ORG)
4. Surprise For Jamie Oliver Over Emmy Award Win (SKY NEWS)
5. Senators Want Gulf Seafood Advisory Group (FOOD SAFETY NEWS)
6. Omnivores’ dreamworld: For the taking, grown year round, to eat or prepare: everything from the everyday to the exotic (BOSTON.COM)
7. Celebrity tastes (NY POST)
8. Afghanistan and African nations at greatest risk from world food shortages (GUARDIAN)
9. Food fight in Los Angeles (FINANCIAL TIMES)
10. Farms fell short on safety, FDA chief says (CNN)
11. Food Photography: How to Plan a Food Shoot (NY TIMES)
12. Britain’s top pie-eaters revealed (THE SUN)
13. McDonald’s Kitchen Lab Puts New Products to Test (ABC NEWS)

A Baker’s Dozen…

1. In the Kitchen with Mary Ellen Mark (EDIBLE MANHATTAN)
2. Biodegradable Picnic Carriers (TREND HUNTER)
3. Spotted: Food-label glitches in the FDA’s very own cafeteria! (LA TIMES)
4. The tools of Thomas Keller’s three-star restaurants (CNET)
5. Food trucks in Seattle are hitting some bumps in the road (SEATTLE TIMES)
6. Eight Tons of Cheese Spilled in Crash (6ABC)
7. Fish tacos land on restaurant menus across the USA (USA TODAY)
8. Heat Wave Melts Chocolate at Candy Shop (FOX28)
9. The latest in frozen dessert gadgets (NORTH JERSEY)
10. Bananas Foster, the flaming hot rod of desserts (SALON)
11. The Secret to In-N-Out’s Burger: Just Add Mustard? (SERIOUS EATS)
12. A particular Palestinian ‘obsession’ (BBC)
13. Naked lunch – and naked breakfast: What’s it like to dine au naturel at an Ontario nudist resort? Extremely distracting (GLOBE & MAIL)

The chef recommends…

1. The Food Network‘s Alton Brown savors these cookbooks (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
2. Cacao by the Truckload (THE ATLANTIC)
3. Alice Waters, Other Well-Known Chefs Visit White House Kitchen & Gardens (OBAMA FOODORAMA)
4. Top Five Superbowl Food Commercials (SLASH FOOD)
5. NYC: Eats From Another Era (BUDGET TRAVEL)
6. James Beard Foundation Names 2010 America’s Classics Award Honorees (R&I)
7. Supersize meh: The FDA’s flawed serving sizes plan (SALON)
8. Broadcaster fined over killing a rat on TV show (REUTERS)
9. Santa Barbara Reports Record Lobster Prices (PERISHABLE NEWS)
10. Alice Waters: Time to Catch Up with Herself (NY TIMES)

1. Hysteria grips state as giant turkeys cause Christmas nightmare (NEWS.COM.AU)
2. Outlawing Ana: French lawmakers battle eating disorders – VIDEO (PBS)
3. UN stops food aid to over half a million Nepalis (REUTERS)
4. Soy in Illinois prison diets prompts lawsuit over health effects (CHICAGO TRIBUNE)
5. Man jailed for eating rare tiger (BBC NEWS)
6. Who’s killing cock robin? Activists point finger at Cyprus (TIMES ONLINE)
7. Copenhagen is a disaster for Africa (GUARDIAN)
8. Top 10: Cake Wrecks disasters of the year (CITY PAGES)
9. Man arrested for stealing from food pantry (SUBURBAN JOURNALS)
10. No truth in ‘food for sex’ in camps, claims Sri Lanka (DNA)
11. FDA Slams Nestle Over Juicy Juice, BOOST Claims (NPR)
12. Jimmy Fallon’s Christmas Song: ‘Drunk on Christmas’ (EAT ME DAILY)

Floor Detail - Pearl Oyster Bar, New Orleans

On today’s menu:

1. Debbie Elliott’s story for National Public Radio reports the FDA Bows To Pressure From Fans Of Raw Oysters
2. This is Why You’re Fat invites readers to submit their own photos of disturbingly high calorie food stuffs
3. Edward Devlin, writing for Click Lancashire, reports Gordon Ramsay faces backlash from animal welfare activists for his use of foie gras on The F Word
4. Giles Coren goes on a restaurant rant for the Guardian.co.uk
5. Marian Burros, writing for Politico, announces The White House has invited chef Marcus Samuelsson to cook the state dinner honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
6. For the Arizona Republic, Susan Felt discusses delicious Colonial Thanksgiving dishes that give a nod to the past
7. North Carolina officials at a middle school suspended two students after their parents brought them fast food for lunch
8. Christopher Rocchio of Reality World TV notes that NBC has ordered a new reality competition series: ‘United Plates of America’
   
9. Enter to win a wine & tango tour of Argentina at Saveur.com
10. Two In-N-Out Burger locations open in Utah and excited customers line up over night