Hot Sake - Food News You Can Use

- Due to reading too many "Best Steakhouses in America" lists in the back of in-flight magazines we normally would shrug off a list like The World's 50 Best Restaurants as published recently by William Reed Publishing Ltd. After recognizing some American and European panelists, we are inclined to save it in order to help plan high-end dining around most continents.

- During a rare mid-week lunch of fantastic burgers and fries at Diner in Williamsburg a couple weeks ago we noticed a few tables reading a thin maroonish magazine. Upon closer inspection on the JMZ train home we found ourselves immersed in a wonderful take on Brooklyn rooted eats, courtesy of Edible Brooklyn. Edited by Greenmarket vet Gabrielle Langholtz, the first issue of this quarterly has a fun trip starting in Sunset Park’s Chinatown with Ed Schoenfeld and an interesting article on the false choice between local and organic foods. (recap via The Food Section)

- Hopefully this Frank Bruni post will break down some of the rigid opposition we have also encountered at restaurants while trying to deviate from a straight-standard drink, app, entrée, dessert progression.

- Speaking of issues near and dear to Gothamist, we enjoyed this Michael Pollan radio segment, which covered amongst other things, the evils of corn. We were chatting with a pal in Boulder this past weekend about the subsidized corn industry, discussing how the worst thing about these subsidies, above and beyond its contribution to national obesity, is that if we predictability knew that we would wind up with all this corn by-product capacity due to subsidies, our government could have pushed firmly for corn fuels earlier on. We may have been in better shape with regards to motor fuel today, much like Brazil, if there was some foresight by the government. If we were going to pay for it with taxes, we should have treated it as a national asset and directed its use for the benefit of our entire country. (radio segment via Saute Wednesday)

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