• Rick Nichols catches up with hot dog portraitist Hawk Krall. [Inquirer]
• City Paper interviews Philadelphia magazine critic Joy Manning, who loves tweeting and Shola. [Meal Ticket]
• Sheila Lukins, author of the Silver Palate cookbooks and owner of the influential Silver Palate shop, has died at 66. [NYT]
• Bottled water manufacturers are locked in an all-out price war to try to win back consumers who’ve switched to tap. [WSJ]
• Bitch magazine founder Lisa Jervis has written a locavore cookbook. [Salon]
