À la carte…

1. Hot Women Serving Cold Fish Make for Raw Feelings in Tokyo (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
2. 575-Lb Heart Attack Grill Spokesman Dies at 29 (EATER)
3. Toys that really cooked: Turns out you can create a whole dinner menu based on foods made by toys – SLIDE SHOW (SALON)
4. New National Pork Board Campaign Evolves To Celebrate Proud New Brand Identity: Pork® Be inspired (PORK.ORG)
5. Charlie Sheen — The Milk Tweet Was Free (TMZ)
6. Baby Gaga: Star takes legal action over London parlour’s breast milk ice cream flavour (LONDON EVENING STANDARD)
7. Horse owner to sell stallion semen shots at New Zealand food festival (NY DAILY NEWS)
8. Taste: It’s in your nose and memories (CNN)
9. Wendy’s re-launches in Japan after yearlong absence (THE INDEPENDENT)
10. Berlusconi Takes Back Food Jibes (YLE)

À la carte…

1. The (Food) Situation on MTV’s Jersey Shore: Season 2 Premiere (FOOD & WINE)
2. What You Need to Read Now: Food Wars (NEWSWEEK)
3. Sarah Bassin, 99, dies; co-owner of District’s first sidewalk cafe (WASHINGTON POST)
4. The latest must-have chef’s toy (FINANCIAL TIMES)
5. Fat New World: Technology spawned the obesity plague. It can also provide a cure (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
6. $1M damage from car fire that spread to McDonald’s (SEATTLE TIMES)
7. Frustrated street food vendor puts cart on Craigslist (GLOBE & MAIL)
8. Bethenny’s Baby Will Eat Butternut Squash (OK! MAGAZINE)
9. Restaurant Serves Up World’s Hottest Curry: One Of Peppers Used Being Tested As Potential Terrorism Weapon (WJACTV)
10. Ramsay’s Maze Cape Town Closes, Adding to Chef’s Woes (BLOOMBERG)

That’s one hot potato…

1. Call him ‘Mr. Potato Head Elvis,’ thank you very much (COMMERCIAL APPEAL)
2. Mello Yello quite happy to be a ’70s burnout (AD FREAK)
3. Tempting the Chinese Palate with Cheese – VIDEO (NTDTV)
4. White rice linked to higher diabetes risk – study (NEWS.COM.AU)
5. America’s Five Best Restaurants Older Than 100 (ESQUIRE)
6. New Attraction — Hershey’s Create Your Own Candy Bar — Opens Its Factory Doors for Visitors (MARKET WATCH)
7. Barbecue Politics – VIDEO (NBC)
8. Grant Achatz Lays Down the Law (GRUB STREET)
9. Scouts battle for marshmallow record (NEWBURRY PORT NEWS)
10. Chicago hot dogs at the White House (CHICAGO SUN TIMES)

Unhappy meals?

1. Happy Meal toys could be banned in Santa Clara County (LA TIMES)
2. Chocolate lovers ‘are more depressive’, say experts (BBC NEWS)
3. Lindsay Lohan gets fired from her new film… and resorts to promoting milkshakes (MAIL ONLINE)
4. Will A Billion Pounds of Cheese Stink Up Markets? (AG WEB)
5. AG Reporters Visit White House Kitchen Garden (OBAMA FOODORAMA)
6. Judge shoots down ‘Sneaky Chef’ Missy Chase Lapine’s case against Jerry Seinfeld’s wife (NY DAILY NEWS)

Shaken, not stirred…

1. A Plea to Keep Martinis Pure (NPR)
2. The tragic death of chef Nathan Laity (GUARDIAN)
3. MARKS & SPENCER is binning its sexy “food porn” TV ads for a more straight-laced image (THE SUN)
4. Watch Top Chef Masters Preview – VIDEO (GRUB STREET)
5. Arrest over China-Japan ‘poisoned dumplings’ row (BBC NEWS)
6. Crazyass Japanese Noodle Commercial -VIDEO (THE DAILY WHAT)
7. Brining Meats is Amazing: How Much Sodium Does it Add? (SALON)
8. The 15 Worst Fast Food FAILS (CHICAGO NOW)
9. A Cheese You Should Be Eating: Beaufort (SERIOUS EATS)
10. At last: A food Bourdain doesn’t like (grasshoppers) – VIDEO (EATER)
11. Santa Clara County to Consider Restricting Toys With Fast Food – VIDEO (NY TIMES)
12. Chefs use Copia gardens for fresh ingredients (NAPA VALLEY REGISTER)