"round-up" news and stories

Orange building. Photo: realitythroughmylens via Urlesque.

To the seriously food-obsessed, anything can seem like a snack. For example, yellow sponges can evoke thoughts of Swiss cheese, and tennis balls can inspire dreams of green apples.

But there are some inedible objects that really are meant to resemble food, including these buildings that our buddies at Urlesque rounded up. Why? Well, uh, who wouldn't want to enter a building that looks like it was made of a wall of bacon?

See more food-inspired architecture at Urlesque.

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.

• Kellogg's has responded to the Michael Phelps marijuana scandal by donating all the boxes of cereal with his mug on them to food pantries.
• Looking for ways to keep the food budget in check? Check out these helpful tips that celebrity chefs shared with Oprah.
• Robert Irvine is back on Dinner: Impossible and the new season kicks off soon.
• When you go to a restaurant, do you socialize and chat with your servers.
• Have you ever been curious whether the restaurants on Kitchen Nightmares prosper and thrive?
• Who's to blame for the peanut salmonella scandal?

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.

• The growing trend of culinary kids is encountering a wee bit of backlash.
  
• Do you rip recipes out of your magazines or save the whole issue if there's something you like?
• The combination of turkey, manchego and pear butter sounds like a inspired sandwich with a nice sweet/savory attitude.
• Food Network's Sandra Lee is getting another show on the channel. In this one, she'll be focusing on affordable edibles.
• Skittles turns their homepage over to a feed of Twitter comments about the brand and the media goes crazy.
• Hosea wins Top Chef and refuses to apologize for his victory.
• Looking for a few good appetizer recipes? Here are five that go great with wine.

With so much good food content popping up on the interwebs every other minute, it's sometimes hard to know which sites to turn to for the best in recipes, polls, product reviews and other food-related goodness. We know you love Slashfood, but what's a foodie to do on those occasions when you've devoured everything Slashfood's got and there's still half an hour of the work day still to kill?

How about checking out our buddies over at YumSugar? They consistently offer high quality content covering all things tasty. We like them so much that starting tomorrow, we'll be offering up a weekly round-up of some of our favorite YumSugar posts from that week. They think we're pretty nifty too, and so will be doing a round-up of our stuff on Thursdays as well. Hooray for food blog buddies!

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