The chef recommends…

1. App Exclusive: Where the Chefs Shop (LIVE.GOURMET)
2. 2011 Chef Awards: Meet the Winners (COOKING LIGHT)
3. Top Chef Puck Keeps Cool, Hangs With Stars, Chooses London Over New York (BLOOMBERG)
4. TV chef’s KFC deal has feathers flying (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
5. French Chefs’ Distant Retreats (TIME)
6. Paula Dean Slices Beef Bourdain! (NATIONAL ENQUIRER)
7. Your 10 questions with Martin Yan (THE STAR)
8. Paratrooper Shuns Sausages to Turn Michelin-Star Chef in France (BLOOMBERG)
9. El Bulli master looks to ancient Chinese cuisine (CHINA DAILY)
10. Prepping food for the eye with Thomas Keller (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
11. Gordon Ramsay’s Pad Thai Criticized, But Monks Approve on ‘The F Word’ – VIDEO (AOL TV)
12. Now troubled Gordon Ramsay gets his fingers burnt: Chef forced to close down his Melbourne restaurant because its unsustainable (DAILY MAIL)

Artisan food stuffs…

1. Artistic Dining in Museum Restaurants (NY TIMES)
2. Make a hash of it (CHICAGO TRIBUNE)
3. Mr. Chocolate, Jacques Torres, Stashes Cocoa Nibs in Pockets, Rides a Scooter to Sushi (GRUB STREET)
4. Restaurant critics stare into the abyss (SALON)
5. The Catcher in the Rye Bread (NY TIMES)
6. The Dish: Pad Thai (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
7. Postcard from Mexico City (WASHINGTON POST)
8. The Four Basic Elements of Dining (and Umami, too) (NY TIMES)
9. Five decades of Delia Smith: Chef Marco Pierre White pays tribute to a legend (MAIL ONLINE)
10. Forget Viagra – pork is the ticket to a hot sex life, says Argentina’s president Cristina Fernandez (NY DAILY NEWS)

LEARN MORE about the food you eat with these tasty links:

1. Making Crepes: Then & Now (TFM)
2. Chocolate history in under three minutes – VIDEO (MODERN MARVELS)
3. Is fondue French or Swiss in origin? (A LA CARTE)
4. The Great Leaders Series: Ray Kroc of McDonald’s (INC.)
5. The English village of Stilton is known for blue Stilton cheese — find out why an EU law says it’s illegal to make the cheese in Stilton itself – VIDEO (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
6. Discovering the origins of Pad Thai – PDF (GASTRONOMICA)