On the Blogs

A few of the best Super Bowl links on the Web this week:

• At a loss for what to serve? Check out these recipes for Sunday, from soup to nuts.
• Your pants will thank you Monday morning if you tweak a few of the usual leaden apps for less caloric impact.
• Perk up your party with signature drinks, decorations and snacks that really extend the game-day theme.
• Don't get caught with sub-par chips and salsa: Let our taste test be your guide.
• See what your favorite celeb chefs like to nosh on while watching the game.

Each Thursday, we round up a selection of scrumptious links from our friends over at YumSugar. Here's what they've got cooking this week:

• Hot sauce is as Super Bowl as a platter of wings.
• Coach Brown's Buffalo wings are hotter than the big game's commercials.
• Coca-Cola is going for the gold in Olympic carbon neutrality.
• Cellaring wine and beer is common, but do you cellar salt?
• Save some of the nacho cheese and beer for this game-day dish.
• Can affordable Stonemill Kitchens spreads and dips score a touchdown?
• We recommend playing mini-football with your saved corks.

Andrew Hunt and I have something in common: we're both writing letters to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

But that's where our similarities stop.

Hunt is a devout vegan who, according to Ontario's The Record, has written Palin a letter extolling the virtues of a vegan lifestyle, which is a diet devoid of any and all animal products, including cheeses and milk. The Republican Party's 2008 Vice Presidential candidate is a very public hunting enthusiast.

But wait, there's more: A professor of history at the University of Waterloo, Hunt promises cordial, weekly letters to Palin about animal rights, vegan recipes, and his experiences as an ex-carnivore.

Forget the Saints. Where dem Vienna sausages?

As Americans stuff their faces with caloric abominations on Super Bowl Sunday, it only seems fitting to have an equally caloric venue to match. Enter Break Media's football stadium made entirely out of snack food.

Tailgating buses made of Twinkies and Ho Ho's usher in legions of Doritos, Pringles and Chex Mix fans to watch olive-helmeted carrot sticks and uncooked Vienna sausages battle it out on the buttercream frosted field.

From the Slim Jim goalposts to the Hershey Bar JumboTron, every detail of this 110,428 calorie athletic amphitheater is edible.

Only thing missing is the scantily clad antacid cheer squad.

Watch the Big Game Snack Food Stadium video after the jump.

Each Thursday, we round up a selection of scrumptious links from our friends over at YumSugar. Here's what they've got cooking this week:

• Do you speak sushi?
• It's not like you were going to get a reservation at El Bulli anyway.
• Ruth Reichl gets the post-mortem bio-pic treatment -- kinda.
• Slow cook your way to a split pea-chorizo soup.
• The "Top Chef" bearded wonder bails on the Bocuse d'Or USA competition.
• Flay flies onto the pages of the nation's most-read Sunday magazine.
• Forsake the restaurant version after making this veggie take of this Mexican favorite.