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

To start, the amazing David Tanis talks chicken wings in The New York Times.

The LATimes gets excited about grapefruit.

The golden arches has stopped using “pink slime”, the amonia based beef product that used to be in their burgers. The Huffington Post looks into the controversy.

The UN announced this week that we simply do not have enough food for our growing population, risking 3 billion people living in poverty by 2040. Reuters checks it out.

The Guardian gets into home smoking. If only I had a back yard…

Andrew Morrison tells how to get through Dine Out Vancouver in the Westender.

The Georgia Straight gives a winning review to Ensemble.

Design*Sponge keeps you disciplined and on your New Year’s resolutions with a broccolini and quinoa salad.

TheKitchn makes a beer and cheddar dip for the Superbowl. They also make a chicken wing cupcake (which I am exceedingly skeptical about).

Super Natural Everyday, one of my favourite cookbooks of the year, gets voted out in favour of the Milkbar cookbook on Food52′s cookbook face-off.

The Foodists wax poetic about Dine Out celebrating the diner.

Alexandra Gill falls for Ned Bell’s new menu at The Yew.

(above photo: steelhead salad on the Dine Out menu at L’Abattoir)

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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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