On the menu…

1. Food Trucks Are Increasingly Serious Terrorism Threat, Says NYC’s Fire Department (GIZMODO)
2. After The Flood: Hope For A Comeback Amid Fears Of A Total Loss At The Red Hook Winery (NONA BROOKLYN)
3. Good Samaritans offer food, water and clothes to Staten Islanders in need after Sandy (NY DAILY NEWS)
4. World Food Championships feature best of the best, World Food Champion to be selected Sunday (LAS VEGAS INFORMER)
5. CBS picks up hit British reality show bake-off for the US (EATER)
6. The Great British Bake Off is the Best Reality Show on TV (THE DAILY BEAST)
7. Magic Johnson Sued: ‘He Made Me Squeeze His Red Vines’ (TMZ)
8. Chick Fil A benefited from Gay Marriage Debate (ABC NEWS)
9. Bravo To Develop Cola Wars Drama From ‘Flipping Out’ Showrunner (DEADLINE)
10. Scent of baked goods makes people nicer: study (NY DAILY NEWS)

res·tau·rant [res-ter-uhnt, -tuh-rahnt, -trahnt] – noun an establishment where meals are served to customers…

1. World’s Most Scathing Review? Lady Gaga’s Family Restaurant Is Called ‘Worse Than Herpes!’ (RADAR ONLINE)
2. Ten Restaurants That Started a Food Movement (BUDGET TRAVEL)
3. Softer restaurant music, lighting can help cut calories (FOX NEWS)
4. It’s Been Awhile, Hasn’t It? Restaurant Review: Le Cirque in Midtown Manhattan (NY TIMES)
5. When Picking Up the Tab is a Dick Move (CHOW)
6. NYC Restaurant Serves $350 Steak (ABC NEWS)
7. Le Meurice Celebrates its “3×5 Anniversary” (ELITE TRAVELER)
8. Groupon buys restaurant reservation company Savored(REUTERS)
9. Forget Letter Grades: Here Come Health Report QR Codes (GRUB STREET)
10. Batali’s Del Posto restaurant in NY settles with workers for $1.15 million, adds vacation days (WASHINGTON POST)

On the menu…

1. Mike and Ike splitting up, candy divorce part of marketing campaign (MCALL)
2. KFC Thailand Apologizes for Facebook Gaffe During Earthquake (TIME)
3. Crazed fan breaks into P Diddy’s mansion, eats his food, drinks his booze and parades around in his expensive clothes (DAILY MAIL)
4. The Bacon Sundae: Brilliant Or Tragic? (NPR)
5. Pizza Hut Unveils Hot Dog Crust Pizza, Burger King Offers Bacon Sundae (CBS NEWS)
6. Condé Nast Acquires Online Recipe Service (MEDIA CODER)
7. Denver artist uses Skittles to create portrait of Florida shooting suspect George Zimmerman (DAILY MAIL)
8. Revealing The Revolting Beauty Of Food Waste (NPR)
9. How ‘pink slime’ blogger ruined a business (SF GATE)
10. Have a Titanic Meal: NYC chefs are cooking up lavish, multicourse meals inspired by the ship’s last, first-class supper (NY POST)

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

1. 19th Century NYC Dining: 10 Fascinating Facts from William Grimes’ Appetite City (VILLAGE VOICE)
2. A fork in the road for Slow Food (GRIST)
3. Buying the Body of Christ (KILLING THE BUDDHA)
4. Drink Coffee? Off With Your Head! (NPR)
5. A Southern-Fried Education (BON APPETIT)
6. Shrimp and grits, benne seed wafers & the lowdown on Low Country cuisine (CNN)

Lobster lusciousness:

1. How Would Santa Ship Chocolate Pears and Live Lobsters? (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
2. Lobster chowder, an adopted New England Christmas tradition (BURLINGTON FREE PRESS)
3. New England Asks: Who Has Fairest Lobster Trap Tree of All? (NY TIMES)
4. Taste for Maine Lobster Growing Halfway Around the World (MPBN)
5. Have Lobsters Jumped The Shark? NYC’s Five Millionth Lobster Roll Place Opens (GOTHAMIST)
6. Napoleon: New Orlean’s best lobster dishes – SLIDESHOW (WWLTV)