From Yahoo! Health: Stay away from KFC’s Chunky Chicken Pot Pie. With over 80 ingredients, this pie is a nutritional nightmare.

From the New York Times: This piece by Mark Bittman is from a couple of weeks ago, but it is worth reading. Bittman writes about the cost of healthy eating vs. the cost of eating junk food. Even though I am a proponent of organic food, I especially like the following quotation: “In comparing prices of real food and junk food, I used supermarket ingredients, not the pricier organic or local food that many people would consider ideal. But food choices are not black and white; the alternative to fast food is not necessarily organic food, any more than the alternative to soda is Bordeaux.”

Again from the New York Times and again from Mark Bittman: In this piece, Bittman goes farther afield, so to speak, and writes about the Wall Street protests. Very much worth reading.

From the Portland Press Herald: Russ Parsons extols the virtues of hosting a party where there is a bruschetta bar. Count me in. Parsons also instructs readers in how to pronounce bruschetta: the ch is apparently always pronounced like a hard c in Italian, so the proper way to say it is “brew-SKET-a.” Now you know, and so do I.

From Epicurious: Growing rice in Vermont! I love potatoes as much if not more than the average person, but the thought of (relatively) local rice makes me almost dizzy with delight.