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 you have a tiny apartment-sized oven like me, but the patio and BBQ of your dreams (also like me), The Guardian recommends using that instead for your turkey.

The amazing Mark Bitman makes one kind of cookie dough that makes 4 kinds of cookies. That man is seriously clever.

Dine Out, the least favourite event of nearly everyone in the industry, now includes food carts. The Georgia Straight checks in.

Andrew Morrison wraps up the year in Vancouver restaurants in the Westender.

If you aren’t as clumsy as me and aren’t as likely to break good wine glasses, I recommend this briefing on the best of them in the North Shore News.

While I’m not Jewish, I passionately love Jewish food. So does Saveur, which gives us the classics. In The Province, they make it modern.

The Kitchn shows you how to impress with salted caramel sauce.

On Design*Sponge, the chocolate world at home gets exciting with the additions of coriander and rosemary.

Alexandra Gill is not impressed by the Rumpus Room.

The staff at the LA Times picked their favourite cookies and made an ebook.

An easy alternative to mashed potatoes gets served up in The Vancouver Sun.

Finally, if you’re getting out of the city for the holidays, you might have to endure a flight or three, so Bon Appetit‘s editors have picked their favourite airport restaurants (Triple O’s isn’t on the list).

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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 Beta 5 Chocolates and runs the baking blog  Just Something Pretty.

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