• People do like to eat and shop at SFO. The airport now ranks third in the nation for passenger sales. [Examiner]
• Marion Nestle discusses the reasons why the FDA doesn’t outright ban chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA) and aspartame. [Chron]
• Glenn Kaplan of Oakland’s newest Uptown bar Make Westing, sees the nightlife transformation there as similar to Williamsburg. [Oakland North]
• Joe Yonan, who writes the “Cooking for One” column in the Washington Post and who recently did a book-signing at Omnivore Books, doesn’t think it should be considered sad to cook for just yourself. Except this is still the saddest cookbook ever. [KQED]
• Women think about food more than sex, agonizing about their diets over their relationships. [Daily Mail UK]
• Back in the day at the Stork Club, Sherman Billingsley used hand signals to communicate various things to his staff such as “Get this table a free round of drinks.” Today, similar signals are still used at New York’s Eleven Madison Park. [NYT]
• Here’s a list of restaurants worldwide that might be the next El Bulli. [WSJ]
• How many kinds of Pringles are there? As this illustrated chart shows, quite a few. Prawn Cocktail? Okay … [NYTM]
• No matter how much restaurants publish calorie counts or MObama pushes veggies, Americans still just want to order burgers and fries. [Businessweek]
