• Other publications may have picked their favorite meals of the year, but only Mike Sula could pick his favorite 110 bites of 2010. [Chicago Reader]
• Frito-Lay is going to announce a revamp of its products, and half of its snacks will be made exclusively from natural ingredients. Fritos and Tostitos are just fried corn, right? What were they made out of before? [USAT]
• Big in 2010: At-home canning, more dudes cooking. [UPI]
• Speaking of huge companies co-opting natural food, one year-end roundup wonders if the artisanal movement has jumped the shark. [Salinas Californian]
• Eeeeee! Scientists have sequenced the cacao genome! Does cloned chocolate count as fair-trade? [Nature via Diner’s Journal/NYT]
• Hawkeye Food Service of Coralville, Iowa, is suing a bunch of Iowa school districts, alleging price-fixing and bid-rigging. [Trib]
