•MP: Chicago goes traveling, both mentally with a look at The New York Times food zeitgeist and physically with a trip to nearby Plano, Illinois.
•MP: Philadelphia considers the relationship between food and music with a rundown of indie rockers’ favorite recipes and an iPod cake (an iCake?).
•MP: San Francisco is all about Iron Chef this week with a live-blog of Sunday’s episode and the best Food Network clip ever.