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Food Media Omnibus #561: On Pizzeria Barbarella And How Not To Dine In Lebanon

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

Design Sponge makes salted chocolate chip cookies.

It’s salad week at Bon Appetit.

Saveur talks about Iranian bread and Ava Gardner.

Hawaiian food comes to Manhattan in The New York Times.

The James Beard Foundation announces it’s awards in The Huffington Post.

The NSNews chats about the hard times that have fallen on the Wine Festival.

Randy Shore talks beer cocktails in The Sun.

Andrew Morrison eats at Barbarella for the WE.

Pink slime, which was recently removed from McDonalds’ menu, has been added to American school lunches. You win some you lose some? The Globe and Mail reports.

Food and Wine drinks Oregon reds.

Lastly, a note to self: don’t eat with yor left hand in Lebanon. This and other strange food etiquettes atMSN.

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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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