DO YOU PLAN your vacations around food?

If so, you’re a culinary tourist — and these links are for you!

1. A Day of Chinese Cooking at Beijing’s Hutong Cuisine (HONEST COOKING)
2. Specialty of the House: Charleston Soul Food (SAVEUR)
3. Cuban Culinary Culture Transformation (FRIENDS EAT)
4. A culinary pilgrimage in and around Seattle (SEATTLE TIMES)
5. California’s New Wine Trail (BUDGET TRAVEL)
6. Foodie fever: 6 great cooking schools (CNN)
7. Boston Chocolate Walking Tours Make For One Sweet Getaway (STONEHAM PATCH)
8. Consider the Pasta of Puglia (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER)
9. Brits Lead the Culinary Revolution in Miami (TELEGRAPH)
10. Chewing the Fat at a Bacon Festival (USA TODAY)

Let’s Go Shopping…

1. “Glee” star’s magazine cover removed from Brookshire’s Grocery shelves (KETK)
2. Whole Foods Giving Away 500 Salad Bars to Schools (EATER)
3. Fee for Using Plastic Bags: Is Your State Next? (SLASH FOOD)
4. Union Market to Open in Manhattan (NY TIMES)
5. Safeway Checks Procedures after Error (SUPERMARKET NEWS)
6. Arthur Potts Dawson launches The People’s Supermarket (LONDON EVENING STANDARD)

A Baker’s Dozen:

1. City of Boston may curb sales of sugary beverages – VIDEO (BOSTON.COM)
2. Don’t Sugar-Coat High-Fructose Corn Syrup (THE ATLANTIC)
3. Free Water to Be Required in California Schools (FOOD MANAGEMENT)
4. America’s Best: Top Ten Comfort Foods with Alton Brown – SLIDE SHOW (FOOD NETWORK)
5. FDA rules won’t require labeling of genetically modified salmon (WASHINGTON POST)
6. ‘The Geometry of Pasta’: Cookbook celebrates 300 shapes (PROJO)
7. Barbara Fairchild leaving Bon Appetit; magazine moving to New York (SF GATE)
8. Fashion elite remembers designer Alexander McQueen in London service — including his “lobster claws” shoes (DAILY MAIL)
9. Monsanto sues Oakhurst Dairy over advertising (HEALTH FREEDOMS)
10. Real Housewives of Oaxaca: Diana Kennedy documents Mexico’s home kitchens (TASTING TABLE)
11. Small Screen, Big Personalities: Television’s all-time most influential foodies – SLIDE SHOW (EPICURIOUS)
12. Pumpkin paddlers race at German pumpkin festival (METRO)
13. Study Links Kids’ Cholesterol and Nonstick Coating on Cookware (TIME)

Guilty Pleasures…

1. Lindsay Lohan’s jail comfort food: Twizzlers (CNN)
2. School Cuts Crime by Changing Cafeteria Menu (PSFK)
3. It Happens In Sets Of Three. MORE CRAZY SHIZ From Chuck E. Cheese! (PEREZ HILTON)
4. Mouse jumps from bowl in restaurant (UKPA)
5. Burger King death: Hold the pickles, call the coroner (WESTWORD)
6. Saratoga Springs man accused of selling candy under guise of charity (CBS6 ALBANY)
7. Vendor inspection reports: The complete list of stadium health inspection summaries, sorted by state (ESPN)
8. Wedding Attendees Claim Food Poisoning at Banquet Hall (MY FOX CHICAGO)
9. Police: Cheeseburger found in SC woman’s gas tank (AP)
10. Couple fights when woman refuses to cook breakfast (NWF DAILY NEWS)

Hot off the grill…

1. John Scharffenberger makes the logical leap from gourmet chocolate to tofu (SF GATE)
2. Forget the Popcorn! Eat Pigs’ Blood Popsicles at the NYC Food Film Fest (JAUNTED)
3. Britain’s royals turned away from Northern Ireland restaurant (THE TIMES OF INDIA)
4. Oil-plagued O’s snowball in hell (NY POST)
5. Jamie Oliver to set up school for reality TV show (GUARDIAN)
6. English Muffin-maker guards `nooks and crannies’ (AP)
7. Starbucks to Offer Free Wi-Fi Service (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
8. The Best Bars in America (ESQUIRE)
9. 10 tragic moments in food propaganda (SALON)
10. Heston Blumenthal on the Science of the Soccer Diet – VIDEO (SERIOUS EATS)