• Rubber chickens and Svengoolie are at the heart of the latest scandal to hit Cicero— the ever-colorful suburb has spent $1,000 on plastic poultry from a vendor who just happens to be on the town’s Housing and Real Estate Board. [Sun-Times]
• Plenty of people are over gefilte fish, so for the Jewish holidays Manischewitz is pushing other products including Moroccan fish balls. Interesting. [WSJ]
• On his CMT show Top Secret Recipe, Todd Wilbur sniffs out the famous recipes of well-known eateries and tries to duplicate them. Careful who you tangle with, Todd! [NYT]
• The urge to forage for food may in fact be deeply ingrained in humans. [Chicago Tribune]
• Could bánh mì be the next big food trend? If Chipotle can open an Asian concept, then hey, why not? [NRN]
• One expert at the Rodale Institute sums up the truly important reason to buy organic produce: Organic agriculture is sustainable, while conventional is not. [HuffPo]
