Editor's Picks - Best of the Rest

by Lisa Schweitzer, Posted Sep 11th 2009 @ 5:00PM

LU Crème Roulee Tin. Image: Amazon.

A few of the best stories spied elsewhere on the Web this week:

Slow Food advocates organize potluck "eat-ins" to boost school lunch funding.

T.G.I. Friday's to give first 500,000 Facebook fans free food.

Club Med launches food blogger camp program, mixing beach bathing with blogger seminars led by prominent writers.

French snacks come to Mercedes Benz Fashion Week with a LU Café, exhibiting designer Erin Fetherston's limited-edition Crème Roulee Rolled Wafer tin at the Bryant Park Tents.

Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food," calls for food industry reform in the wake of Obama's health care reform speech.

Unsuspecting teachers got high off "church bake sale" brownies. Symptoms they chalked up to food poisoning were actually the result of pot brownies at a sidewalk sale that was, evidently, not benefiting a church.

Julia Child's illustrator isn't a foodie and doesn't have much interest in seeing the movie "Julie & Julia."