eG Forums Rye Reviews: Not that the liquor stores around me will have Pikesville or Rittenhouse.

Protectors of the Krispy Kreme Brand: I'm utterly fascinated by this blog, run by a large California franchisee and dedicated to exploring the attempts to pull the HOT DONUTS NOW company out of its nosedive.

Cooking For Engineers's Oven-Fried Onion Rings: I'm practically drooling. (The secret seems to be pre-fried breading, using potato chips and saltines.)

tesg's guide to big chain road food consumption: From the giants like McDonald's and Subway to huge regional chains like Jack in the Box to crazy Cincinnati chili joints that don't travel outside the Kentucky/Ohio/Indiana area. America has a lot of fast food chains I've never heard of.

The Giant Burger: Thirty pounds of beef. Does it come with fries?

Girlhacker's annual Oscar loot list: Lilly puts this together every year, and every year I'm staggered by how much people are willing to dole out in the hopes of a celebrity endorsement.

On the ubiquity of flair: I can think of few jobs as simultaneously fascinating and soul-deadening as kitsch purchaser for TGI Fridays.

"We may not be using the word regularity, and we’re certainly not using the word laxative, but we are promoting the benefits.": V. preaches the gospel of the prune at any opportunity -- little does she know she will incur the wrath of the powerful California Dried Plum Board!

Minimiam -- French miniature photography: Little figurines exploring the world of food. These are -incredible-.

Running the Sausage Race: Exciting, even without Randall Simon waiting to kneecap the racers. "As we choke on Polish's dust, the other three of us are neck-and neck-until Italian Sausage makes his move." (via Off the Kuff)

Whales at Marineland learn a disgusting (but clever!) trick.: By puking up fish, they can lure seagulls to their whale-snack-ish demise.

Ruth's Kitchen: One MBA-packing biochemist Jewish mother's cookbook. A treasure. (via the Hungry Tiger)

The American Diner Museum: A treasure trove of diner car designs, vintage signs, and perhaps the occasional blue plate and greasy spoon, coming to Providence, RI.

America's great tiki bars: Most date from the late '50s and early '60s, the heyday of America's love affair with mai tais and grass skirts.

Why the Red Delicious No Longer Is: The rise and fall of the canonical variety of Washington apple.

How do you make sippin syrup? - Q&A: Today's "greatest page on the Internet".

Hope for Hungry Children, Arriving in a Foil Packet: Plumpy'nut, the fortified peanut butter for starving refugee children. If Bruce Sterling is right, thirty years from now this will be desirable comfort food.

Brad DeLong's commentors on the economics of Two-Buck Chuck: Tariffs, margins, expansion, appelation, and why the Midwest has "Three-Buck Chuck".

The Ben and Jerry's Pint Lock: In which a Half-Bakery-style idea reaches fruition. Seriously. (via Bruce Schneier)

Krispy Kreme's downfall: The insider-franchisee buyback seems to have amounted to a disguised payoff to former executives, but the whole company was a mess. (via Waxy)

Muoi Khuntilanont Thai Food Recipes: Are these related to the lost recipes of Colonel Ian Khuntilanont-Philpott? No, I'm absolutely serious.

Toast: My mother-in-law joins the foodblogging community (and is doing a heck of a job at it).

R.I. Police Say Man Offered Steak for Sex: Those Woonsocket boys know how to charm a lady. (via Majikthise)

Sewdorky: Makers of fine felted donuts: I never knew I needed one of these until now. Where's the cruller?

The Starbucks effect and highway planning: What happens when a significant proportion of the nation's commuters need to stop and get their morning latte?

"As you can see, I have lot of questions about pork dairy potential.": And other letters to the world's most patient PR drones. (via delicious/redfox)

How to Cut...: A guide to knife skills.

Sacramento Bee's foodblog roundup: Everybody loves my baby! (Everybody loves Anil Dash's baby, too, but shamelessly promoting her website isn't my problem.)

Food bloggers chronicle their delicious obsessions: "And they like to hang out in places like the Accidental Hedonist, Hungry Tiger, and Food Porn Watch." The author of Hungry Tiger is obsessed with del.icio.us, so it all works!

The Potted Meat Museum: Who could refuse "Our Finest Brand Tripe with Gravy"?

The best crackers in America: I was so happy when Whole Foods started carrying these

"Design is Universal" - a kitchen by Metropolis Magazine: A completely rethought kitchen, designed to be wheelchair friendly (via)

"Design is Universal" - a kitchen by Metropolis Magazine: A completely rethought kitchen, designed to be wheelchair friendly (via)

Attack of the Grape Tomatoes: The rise of and legal battle over America's favorite sugary bitesize tomato variety.

Husky or Maltese Whatever: That's an all-time-great restaurant name.

The brewers' conspiracy: White slavery, breeding vice, and serving slop: For a crazy man, he talks good sense about cheap lager. (via)

Straight Bourbon.com: Huge list of bourbon varieties, including many that I've never heard of (much less tried).

The triumphant return of Hot Doug's!: Chicago's finest weinery will reopen on Labor Day. Hurrah!

The bottle with the stork: Why Ghana's favorite gin comes from Holland.

A trip down Gin Lane: I've been looking for a really good gin and tonic gin.

When corn is king: "Maize" is Arawakan for "devil crop."

Rock and Roll McDonald's is no more: Cry a little tear for Wesley Willis, everybody. (see also) (via)

Fresh Roast Plus personal coffee roaster: A coffee roaster designed for one or two people. Nice. (via)

The Pure Foods Act and PB&J: "[T]here never was a product made but some gosh darn fool could make it worse and sell it for less." Absolutely wonderful. (via)

Kool-Aid Man's costume is in Hastings, NE: The museum in the inventor's hometown has an exhibit with a "fiber-optic river of Kool-Aid".

Dogfish Head's Chicory Stout: Not as good as Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout, but absolutely scrumptious anyway.

Kitchens of the Future: "Her declaration that 'this kitchen doesn't need a woman' captures a central theme of this paper." An astoundingly great linkdump from Anne Galloway.

Cornell University's Home Economics Archive: Before there was mock apple pie, before there was health class, there were a lot of frustratrated proto-feminists who wanted to make a science of the arts of domesticity.

Zingerman's: The coolest small company in America: Especially if we define "coolest" as "having the best mail-order Spanish cheese".

Hot Doug's closed due to fire: Oh no! I was at the celebrated Chicago hotdoggerie just last month with my friends the Thirteens! (see also) (and this)

Corn syrup and type II diabetes: It is truly the devil's sweetener.

Thorax cake: Ewwww... Yummy!

Vegetarian Indian food: I'm not sure in what sense this is -news-, but it made me hungry for an utthapam.

My new CSA: "Community supported agriculture" -- buy a share of a farm's output, get fresh and relatively cheap veggies and eggs

Kim Il Jong's chef tells all: "Why can't our cooks make them this way? The aroma of the mugwort is also very nice." (via)

The Politics of Sugar: Liberals and conservatives agree: possibly the single worst domestic policy of the American government, and it's never going to go away. (via)

A week of eating dangerously: Eating veal! Life on the edge must be liberating indeed! In case you needed reminding that PETA are not the sole diet-fixated jerks in the world.

Brain sandwiches: "The decision means customers will have to switch to pork brains, which they tend to not like as much because they are smaller and more difficult to work with..." (via)