The Atlantic: Coffee drinkers, rejoice: evidence of caffeine's health benefits seems to be mounting. Especially in regard to longevity and what researchers describe as "monotonous highway driving." -- Julia Moskin Architizer: If you like your gingerbread houses to be timely and topical, boy, does the Parker Meridien have one for you: a cookies-and-icing depiction of the Midtown crane collapse. -- Pete Wells The Daily News: Boys want to have fun with Easy Bake Ovens, too. So says a New Jersey girl who is gathering names on a petition through Change.org to force the toymaker Hasbro to include boys in its Easy Bake Oven ads for the first time, so that boys like her 4-year-old brother will know they, too, can play at baking. --Maria Newman Food52: Gremolata madness. -- Jeff Gordinier Eater: The Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse chain, where moviegoers can eat and drink at their seats, will open a seven-screen location in Downtown Brooklyn in 2015 in the City Point development. The chain has plans to open three New York locations. -- Robert Simonson Slate: Is survivalism still nutty if it can come up with a cute brand name and a cooking show? The company Shelf Reliance is making palatable M.R.E.'s and teaching pioneer skills on its happy-talking TV program "THRIVE Live." -- Patrick Farrell The Wall Street Journal: Diminutive drinks - 2- to 4-ounce cocktails, instead of the standard 8 to 10 ounces - are the next big thing. - Glenn Collins Black Enterprise: Last call at the Lenox Lounge. The landmark Harlem jazz club that featured Billie Holiday, Miles Davis and John Coltrane is closing its doors at the end of the year. (Via Eater.) -- Maria Newman LA Weekly: Has it really taken America this long to dream up chocolate dessert nachos? -- Jeff Gordinier The Telegraph: Images of the world's most innovatively designed bars and restaurants, from the new book "Architecture Now! Eat Shop Drink," from Taschen. Room in which I would most like to eat a meal: Witteveen Brasserie in Amsterdam. Room in which I would least like to have a cocktail: Tazmania Ballroom in Hong Kong. -- Julia Moskin Food Republic: You know a food craze has run its course when it spawns a goofy, inedible dessert. As in, bacon Jell-O. - Patrick Farrell Epicurious: Twinkies Aftermath: if you could bring back any guilty food pleasure from oblivion, what would it be? -- Maria Newman The Chicago Reader: What happens to your brain on coffee when you've avoided it for most of your life? Kevin Warwick takes the muddy plunge. -- Jeff Gordinier Mixellany: The noted cocktail writer Gaz Regan has written an entire book devoted to the Negroni. The cover of the book, which will be released this winter, is red, like the Campari in the cocktail. --Robert Simonson Afar: If you believe in reincarnation, here is something to aspire to: maybe in your next life you could come back as the sommelier Spencer Cruse as he nibbles and sips his way through Sicily. -- Jeff Gordinier Eater San Francisco: A San Francisco-based cocktail writer talks about the differences between the Bay Area and New York cocktail scenes, among many other things. -- Robert Simonson Time Out New York: Hey, what's that undercurrent of flavor coursing through these new winter cocktails? Nuts. -- Jeff Gordinier NPR: Children should be discouraged from watching this video showing what Maine scientists say is the first direct evidence in the wild of lobsters practicing cannibalism on lobsters (a behavior occasionally observed in lobster tanks). The summer lobster glut that caused a plummeting fishermen's price war also motivated adult lobsters to eat juveniles. - Glenn Collins Tasting Table: The whole elevated-Jewish-deli thing seems to be hitting our nation's capital, too. -- Jeff Gordinier Poetry Foundation: Here's "Talking Back to the Mad World," a spirited, stress-alleviating Sarah C. Harwell poem about letting a garden go fallow. -- Jeff Gordinier The Economist: Say it ain't so: veggie burgers, tofu and alfalfa have arrived in the least vegan place on earth: meat-mad Mongolia. - Glenn Collins