• Tasting Table notes that two Polk Street bars (Bullitt and Tonic) offer Fernet on tap, and SFoodie reminds us of the potent digestif’s very long history as a San Francisco treat. [Tasting Table via SFoodie]
• Michael Bauer tracks the pan-Latino trend in the Bay Area, which began with places like Fonda in Albany and has spread to Oakland venues like Cesar Latino and Bocanova. [Between Meals]
• A look at Tigers Woods’s favorite road meals. [Daily Fork]
• A Fort Worth restaurant offers a ten-pound chicken-fried steak, certified by Guinness as the world’s largest, with a six-pound side of mashed potatoes. [Slashfood]
• India will make grenades out of bhut joloika (ghost chilis) to fight terrorism. [Discovery News]
• Orthorexia, an eating disorder in which sufferers are inordinately concerned with healthy food, is on the rise. [NYDN]
• The portions in paintings of the Last Supper have been steadily growing, say scientists. [NYP]
