by Claire Lassam | Presenting Scout’s weekly Food Media Omnibus, a collection of links to the local and international food stories of the day…

If anyone could make China open up about arts and culture, it would be the amazing Alice Waters.

If you, like me, don’t have a yard, The New York Times checks in on growing mushrooms indoors and Britta Riley does a TEDTalk on turning a hydroponic harvest with a window. Fascinating and inspiring.

The LATimes waxes poetic about the Warren pear.

Nigel Slater gets excited about Polish food in The Guardian

Alexandra Gill gets out of the rain and into Cafe Regalade.

Andrew Morrison talks about off cuts, bacon bitters, and the thing that ties them to Vancouver, which is of course the upcoming Wildebeest.

The Province gets in on a food trend. Macarons are the new cupcakes.

Too full to keep drinking? Bon Appetit has you covered.

If only for this line –“You’re not a real Parisian until you’ve had a merguez sandwich stuffed with frites inside, at 3am” – you should read this article by David Leibovitz.

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Claire Lassam is a baker, blogger, and freelance writer based in East Van. She has been cooking and baking her way through the city for nearly five years, working in restaurants ranging from Cioppino’s to Meat & Bread. She currently toils at the soon-to-open Cadeaux Bakery in Railtown and runs the baking blog  Just Something Pretty.

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