• In case you hadn’t heard, cooking school costs a bundle and the jobs you get after don’t pay much. [Time]
• Chefs like Quinn and Karen Hatfield and .ink chef de cuisine Cole Dickinson agree that no one has to attend cooking school anymore to achieve greatness in the kitchen. [LAT]
• Pass the butter: A study suggests saturated fat might help us deal with negative emotions. [HuffPo]
• Once funny SNL newsman Dennis Miller has been reduced to railing against the food police on Bill O’Reilly’s show. [Fox News]
• Herewith, the pros and cons of buying McDonald’s stock. [USAT]
• Go Burger’s shakes get a write-up in USA Today, which calls them the best shakes in town. And yes, guys, it would “be presumptuous to call these the best burgers in L.A.,” and just plain wrong. [USA Today]
• Ooh boy, another deals site is launching in West L.A. today, this one from San Francisco called Munch on Me (they’re clearly running out of names, too). [LAT]
• If you’ve ever wondered what the inside of the Wienermobile looks like, here you go. [HuffPo]
• If the focus of sushi is the fish, onigiri’s is on the rice. [LAT]