Your order is up:

1. Into the Coffee Zone – VIDEO (CIA PROCHEF)
2. Alice Waters Dishes on the Food Scene (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
3. Chef Mark Liberman prepares to take the heat (SF GATE)
4. 10 Worst Sandwiches in America (MEN’S HEALTH)
5. Chili: a bowl of red-blooded American heaven (LA TIMES)
6. Cheese’s twilight rattles France’s sense of self (WASHINGTON POST)
7. The State of Molecular Cuisine (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
8. Funky Valentine’s Day Gifts for Foodies (SLASH FOOD)
9. Sichuan buttons: The flowers that electrocute your mouth
   (SALON)
10. A Letter to the McItaly Burger (SLOW FOOD)
11. Springsteen denies being involved in bar suit (NJ.COM)
12. Eric Schlosser on why he’s giving up food (TIMES ONLINE)

Aged to perfection:

1. 97-year-old butter found at Robert Scott’s Antarctic base (TIMES ONLINE)
2. The Chocolate Rebel: Jacques Genin (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
3. Ohio eatery offers discount for sandwich tattoos (AP)
4. Singapore: The great taste of a cultural melting pot (INDEPENDENT)
5. Germany offers ultimate snack: gold covered schnitzel (M&C)
6. Sir Michael Caine reveals recipe for ‘best roast potatoes in the world’ (TELEGRAPH)
7. Forget the jokes, fruitcake is serious business (FAILURE)
8. Best Airport Dining Spots (FOOD & WINE)
9. Foie Gras served at Denny’s in Japan – VIDEO (JAPAN PROBE)
10. Yum TV Editor’s Ultimate Foodie Gift Guide – VIDEO ( YUM SUGAR)
11. Muslim police chef defeated in ‘bacon roll’ tribunal faces £75,000 legal bill (DAILY MAIL)
12. 5000 Ways to Eat Cheese (MANILLA BULLETIN)

Are you hungry?

1. 2009 Obama Foodie Holiday Gift Guide (OBAMA FOODORAMA)
2. Tourists Enjoy White House Breakfast (AP)
3. White House Executive Chef Cristeta Pasia Comerford – The First Filipina Chef to feed the First Family (ASIAN JOURNAL)
4. Better with age: the best online sources for vintage cookbooks (TASTING TABLE)
5. Fast food rules list of most memorable new products (NRN)
6. Sweet tips for hosting a cookie-decorating party for kids (SEATTLE TIMES)
7. A chat with ‘Top Chef’ fan fave Kevin Gillespie (USA TODAY)
8. Nicole Kidman’s Husband Hates Her Cooking (SHOW BIZ SPY)
9. Both sides may have had knives in deadly falafel fight (NEW YORK POST)
10. 1,200 gallons of cooking oil found in Cape home septic tank (CAPE COD TIMES)
11. Hip Hop’s Three 6 Mafia Cooking Up Reality Show (HHW)
12. The 10 Best New Restaurants in America (GQ)

The catch of the day:

1. In Birthplace of Local Food, Fish Imports Take Over the Menu (NEW YORK TIMES)
2. Behold the Beer Can, Its Beauty Faded in the Eyes of the Young (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
3. Top Six Worst Gifts For Home Cooks and Chefs This Holiday Season (MIAMI NEW TIMES)
4. Whole Foods launches mobile web site (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
5. Ten Uniquely American Meals (FORBES)
6. Gordon Ramsay Flees Kitchen as TV Fame Saves Restaurant Empire (BLOOMBERG)

I HAVE A COUPLE chocoholics on my holiday gift list — the type of people who literally swoon when encountering a chocolate truffle.

This year I’ve found a number of interesting products that will probably send these chocolate lovers into a cocoa-dazed coma.

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Hotel Chocolat has a Liquid Chocolat Selection Gift Box full of drinking chocolate in flavors including Aztec Chili ($25).

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Endangered Species Chocolate offers decadent and delectable gift boxed collections (including a vegan option for $25) — but that isn’t all that’s good.

The company donates 10% of net profits to help support species, habitat and humanity — so you can have your candy and feel good about it too.

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Ghiradelli Chocolate is offering 12 Days of Christmas specials including a four pack of blue ornaments filled with premium Ghirardelli Squares™ Chocolates ($23.80).

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CocoaMill Chocolates makes hand crafted St. Nicholas sculptures to order ($75.95).

Sculpted in White, Milk or Bittersweet Chocolate, each piece is over 20-inches tall and weighs 4-and-a-half pounds!

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Neiman Marcus’ Chocolate Hanukkah Candy Set features specialty chocolates, handcrafted by Golda & I, in the shape of dreidels, the Star of David and a menorah ($55).

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La Maison du Chocolat by Robert Linxe — 176 pages of chocolate recipes and beautiful photos of the chocolates of La Maison du Chocolat ($55).

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Recchiuti’s Chocolate Obsession Club sends monthly shipments of the company’s renowned handmade candies.

Available at three levels: three-months ($155), six-months ($305) and twelve-months ($605).