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

1. Madrid Food Scene Still Heaven (ZESTER DAILY)
2. Sabores Yucatecas: A Culinary Tour of the Yucatán (WASHINGTON TIMES)
3. Chef Fergus Henderson’s London Travel Guide (BON APPETIT)
4. The Best Places to Eat in… Spain’s north-eastern jewel San Sebastián (DAILY MAIL)
5. Would you eat food cooked over a volcano? (CBC)
6. What to Eat in New Orleans: Po-Boys, Beignets, Mufuletta… (SERIOUS EATS)

The Chef Recommends…

1. New Orleans Restaurants Raise Funds for Injured Chef (EATER)
2. French chef or American cook? The double life of Jacques Pépin (AUSTIN 360)
3. Chef Heston Blumenthal hopes his latest creation will be this summer’s hot new treat… mustard ice cream (THE DAILY MAIL)
4. Gordon Ramsay to sign exclusive one-year deal to stay at Channel 4 (GUARDIAN)
5. Todd English: The Chef in Motion (NY TIMES)
6. Chef Wolfgang Puck to oversee all dining operations at Hotel Bel-Air (IB TIMES)
7. Fergus Henderson Says Grey Salt is Like Magic (And He’s Right, Of Course) (BON APPETIT)
8. A Chef’s Process, Self Analysis and Daily Conquests (SF GATE)
9. Barbecuing the Perfect Steak: As Chef Fernando Trocca Prepares the Asado, He Explains Why Argentinian Beef Is the Best in the World (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
10. My New York: Sam Talbot (NY POST)

The Chef Recommends:

1. Here’s a Look at Chef John Besh’s New Orleans (EATER)
2. Chef Akhtar Nawab (CNN)
3. Ferran Adria takes on the world (TODAY ONLINE)
4. Fergus Henderson: The Hip Hogtelier (THIS IS LONDON)
5. Chef Chris Cosentino on Taste of the Nation (SF EXAMINER)
6. College Critic Pens Revenge Review After Staging With Alex Stupak (GRUB STREET)

The Chef Recommends…

1. What Fergus Henderson did next…The ‘nose to tail’ chef is ready to open the St John hotel, an ‘oasis of calm’ with 2am dining and Toblerone in the minibar (GUARDIAN)
2. Ramsay bounces back: The ubiquitous celebrity TV chef heads back to where he really matters (TODAY ONLINE)
3. CAA Signs TV Chef Gordon Ramsay (DEADLINE)
4. Duff Goldman to get a Blue Bunny ice cream line (BALTIMORE SUN)
5. TV chef increased cod sales by 800 per cent, export conference told (FISH UPDATE)
6. A Field Guide to New York’s Bad Boy/Bad Girl Chefs (EATER)
7. Emeril Lagasse, Wolfgang Puck, Padma Lakshmi, Chef Ken Hom and The Lee Bros Among Other Acclaimed Chefs Preparing the Ultimate Culinary Experience on HSN (PR NEWSWIRE)

The Chef Recommends…

1. Allow to cool: Chef Marco Pierre White calls off divorce as legal bill soars (LONDON EVENING STANDARD)
2. The Fergus Factor (FINANCIAL TIMES)
3. Gordon Ramsay tries to end family feud after saying he has forgiven his father-in-law (MIRROR)
4. Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares: Is That Lobster Dead Or Is It Just Sleeping? (RTVC)
5. Whatever happened to Alain Rondelli, a chef’s chef? (SF GATE)
6. Watch Chef Daniel Patterson Make Butter – VIDEO (BON APPETITE)
7. Paula Deen a boon for Smithfield Foods (HAMPTON ROADS)
8. Rick Moonen Named Cooking for Solution’s Chef of the Year – PDF (MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM)
9. Nobu shows London his Umami (FOODEPEDIA)
10. In the kitchen with Michael Symon and Jonathan Waxman, James Beard Celebrity Chef Dinner, Mauna Lani (HONOLULU MAGAZINE)