First off, we suppose we should mention July 4. After all, it's only American, right? And everyone has a picnic, right? But before you go off all half-cocked and over-marinated, check out what Biggles has to say over at Meathenge, all right? On the other hand, maybe some of you aren't grillers. In that case, listen to Food Musing's Grandma, who has some good advice on that very picnicky dish, fried chicken. And Celeste......

We swore we were done with Easter. We weren't going to mention it at all this week. We felt we'd used up our allotted portion of bandwidth on it, and that it was all played out. No more. And then. And then. This. We may be world-weary, we may be agnostic, but whatever we are we were jaw-droppingly amazed by Meathenge's Easter idea. We don't want to spoil it for you, so just go,......

In the excellent William Gibson novel Pattern Recognition, the main character has a panic attack every time she is confronted with the image of Bibendum, the Michelin Man. we don't really blame her, the early pics of him were pretty, well, not pretty. In that vein, we can only imagine the plotzing that's going on in some of the Bay Area's finest kitchens following the announcement that the revered Michelin Guide has chosen to focus......