Lobster lusciousness:

1. The Other Other White Meat: Maine Rebrands the Lobster (THE DAILY BEAST)
2. Lobster With Extra Claw on Display (WPRI)
3. Recipe for lobster sliders (BOSTON.COM)
4. Author Interview: Chuck Hughes + recipe for Lobster Poutine – VIDEO (CTV NEWS)
5. Man eats 13 lobster rolls to win NH eating contest (BOSTON.COM)
6. She’s No Man; She’s A Lobsterman – AUDIO (NRP)
7. Lobster Academy teaches lobster basics (CBS MONEY WATCH)
8. Have Lobster, Will Travel — And Race The Clock (NPR)
9. The Lobster That Brought Me Home (GILT TASTE)
10. Red Lobster – for the non-seafood lover in you (FOX NEWS)

Let’s go shopping…

1. Whole Foods Is Ditching Unsustainable Seafood (CHOW)
2. Whole Foods Takes a Gamble on Detroit (NASDAQ)
3. Wegmans, Trader Joe’s, Publix & Fareway top Consumer Reports supermarket ratings (CHATHAM JOURNAL)
4. Cigarettes disappear from UK supermarket shelves under new anti-smoking laws (TELEGRAPH)
5. Grocery Shopping in China (ONLINE BARRONS)
6. Why Grocery Stores Are Making Us Fat (MARCUS SAMUELSSON)

On the menu…

1. Why we’re paying more for pasta (CHICAGO TRIBUNE)
2. Bourdain kind of regrets ‘crass’ comments about Deen (TODAY)
3. Man Finds $150K in His Vegetable Garden (KSEE24)
4. The decline of food shows – now they’re rude shows (THE GLOBE & MAIL)
5. Shaquille O’ Neal Partners With Restaurant For “Shaqalicious” Soup (BUSINESS INSIDER)
6. New York’s Papaya King on papaya supply difficulties (NRN)
7. Spanish town painted red in annual tomato fight (SEATTLE PI)
8. Panda Express opens in Mexico (NRN)
9. Zabar’s fake lobster salad gets a made-up name to match (LA TIMES)
10. Seafood sensation: A farm-raised freshwater fish from Peru is drawing raves from local chefs (MIAMI HERALD)

Guilty Pleasures…

1. Teen in ice cream mascot outfit is attacked (MERCURY NEWS)
2. Southern California seafood dealer pleads guilty to selling whale meat (MERCURY NEWS)
3. Kentucky Inmate Finds Dead Mouse in Soup (KENTUCKY)
4. Shoplifters Roll Expensive Cheese Out of Whole Foods in Oregon (SEATTLE WEEKLY)
5. Trucker disappears with $400,000 worth of king crab legs (SEATTLE TIMES)
6. Foodborne Illness Outbreaks: German E Coli Outbreak Joins Cruel List (FOOD POISON JOURNAL)

Prose, essays, reviews, interviews & poetry with a focus on food:

1. Thirty Days as a Cuban: Pinching pesos and dropping pounds in Havana by Patrick Symmes – PDF (PENULTIMEOS DIAS / HARPERS)
2. Seafood: Read All About It, and How to Cook It by Florence Fabricant (NY TIMES)
3. Finalists for the 2011 Association of Food Journalists Awards by Allecia Vermillion (EATER)
4. Cooking to Get Laid or at least how to put more effort into home dinner dates by Katherine Dedyna (TIMES COLONIST)
5. Baking is feminist, says Nigella – and my husband would rather eat Weetabix by Daily Mail Reporter (DAILY MAIL)
6. Cooking In AP Style: A Stew Of Words Spelled Right by J.M. Hirsch – AUDIO (TELL ME MORE / NPR)