The Chef Recommends:

1. Publish or perish: Local chefs who have cookbooks (SF GATE)
2. Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, with restaurants around the world, makes a confession about travel (ZESTER DAILY)
3. Famed chef Thomas Keller whips up Labor Day feast (NY DAILY NEWS)
4. Welcome To $yndication Gordon! (PEREZ HILTON)
5. Guy Fieri, Chef-Dude, Is in the House (NY TIMES)
6. America’s Fittest Chefs (FOOD & WINE)

The Chef Recommends:

1. Willy Wonka of dining works his magic: Heston Blumenthal (INDEPENDENT IE)
2. Traits of the Toques: A Celebrity Chef Quiz (SF GATE)
3. Dirty Old Man (Gordon Ramsay) Gropes Beautiful Latina (Sofia Vergara) on Leno – VIDEO (EATER)
4. Celeb chef (Gordon Ramay) kicked out of Cape eatery (TIMES LIVE)
5. Nobu Matsuhisa’s Los Angeles (FINANCIAL TIMES)
6. Aussie chef takes on the Thais (AUSTRALIAN)
7. Ryan Skeen: ‘It’s All Been a Little Too Much the Past Year’ (GRUB STREET)
8. Top 10 Worst Celebrity Goatees: No. 5, Guy Fieri (TIME)
9. Kitchen Inquisition: Michael D’Andrea (NBC MIAMI)
10. Chefs seek payment for virgin oils’ phony purity (AP)

Don’t forget to tip the driver…

1. The Kitchen Thinker: milk bottles (TELEGRAPH)
2. Choco-mania: Meet Dominique Persoone of Chocolate Line, Belgium (HINDU)
3. “Dirty Dozen” Produce Carries Up to 67 Pesticides per Serving, CNN Reports (FIRST COAST NEWS)
4. Q&A: Guy Fieri on New York Dining (MANHATTAN MAGAZINE)
5. The Best Food Apps (GLOBE & MAIL)
6. Young Food Entrepreneurs Make Their Future by Hand (NY TIMES)

The proof is in the pudding…

1. El Bulli to Close Permanently (NY TIMES)
2. China has 2.1 million tons of sugar in reserve (COMMODITY ONLINE)
3. Anthony Bourdain & Eric Ripert launch show on Martha Stewart radio (CANADIAN PRESS)
4. Guy Fieri Game Show Previews… – VIDEO (EATER)
5. Tasty traditional delicacies for Tet holiday (VIETNAM NEWS)
6. Delia Smith’s Eighties recipes: Mushrooms in hot garlic butter (DAILY MAIL)

A bucket full:

1. No money for a bronze Col. Sanders statue? No problem, says PETA: Make it out of chicken feces (LA TIMES)
2. Homeless scavenge for food and water after earthquake in Haiti (TIMES ONLINE)
3. World Food Programme asks bloggers to help with earthquake relief for Haiti (AMERICAN CHRONICLE)
4. NBC’s Post-Jaypocalyptic Primetime Includes Fieri’s Minute to Win It (TIME)
5. Thailand’s Damnoen Saduak floating market – SLIDE SHOW (CNN)
   
6. Preview online for Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution – VIDEO (TV.COM)
7. Do Cell Phones Belong on Dinner Tables? (GRUB STREET)
8. Brooklyn mobster gives judge food for thought (NY POST)
9. Exotic Tastes of the Big Island (NY TIMES)
10. Tavern’s Treasures Sold – SLIDE SHOW (NRN)
11. Menu Prices & the Economic Recovery (FAST CASUAL)
12. NYC’s Yonah Schimmel’s Celebrates Its 100th Birthday (VILLAGE VOICE)