• Organic farming, on a larger scale, may not be as expensive as most farmers assume. [SFoodie]
• Brandon Jew, chef at Bar Agricole, practices whole-animal cooking even at home in his tiny basement apartment. [Chron]
• The winner at yesterday’s giant pumpkin weigh-off in Half Moon Bay, grown by Leonardo Urena of Napa, weighed in at 1,704 pounds, which breaks the state record for the largest gourd ever grown here. [ABC7, Chron]
• Vitamins, long thought to be if not helpful then at least harmless, have been linked to higher mortality in older women. [BBC]
• Summer weather was tough on the peanut crop, which will force peanut-butter manufacturers to raise prices. Better stock up on Skippy. [WSJ via Pocono Record]
• A new app lets travelers order food from airport restaurants via their iPhones and receive gate-side delivery. Fellow travelers will love you when you bring that tuna salad on the plane. [NRN]
• It seems that when cacao was first exported from South America by Europeans, they didn’t get all the really good stuff. As such, there’s more flavor variety lurking in the jungles of Peru. [NPR]
• If you want to see the full list of winners for this year’s Association of Food Journalists awards, tool on over to Eater. [Eater]
