Details: Yet another roundup of cocktail trends declares that the speakeasy is passé. Also, canned beer is apparently in. (But was it ever really out?) - Robert Simonson The New York Times: Emu ranching is making something of a comeback. The lean meat, once thought too exotic in this country, is getting a second look from health food stores because it is low in fat and high in omega-3 fatty acids. But it is the rising popularity of emu oil that has kept some ranches from closing. -- Maria Newman Econsultancy: Much-needed advice to restaurant owners on building better Web sites, like: No music. No "click to enter" page. No typos. -- Julia Moskin Food & Wine: How did a Hong Kong yakitori joint become one of the most influential restaurants in the world? -- Jeff Gordinier New York: On the past, present and future of flair bartending. - Robert Simonson The Guardian: A rant against restaurants that use super-expensive dishes as a publicity stunt. -- Jeff Gordinier The Chicago Tribune: The restaurant critic Phil Vettel gives four stars to the long-awaited Grace restaurant. Although the menu sounds a bit Portlandia (Dinner begins with "a quartet of fruit-based canapes, borne to the table on a charred barrel stave"), the food sounds great. So do the four restrooms, decorated to evoke summer, fall, winter and spring. -- Julia Moskin Poetry Foundation: The Times contributor Rosie Schaap, the author of "Drinking With Men," speaks with Curtis Fox in a podcast about the deep connection between poetry and hanging out in bars. -- Jeff Gordinier Atlanta: You say you want to can the bounty from your garden, but you don't have the right equipment? If you live in Georgia, you can take advantage of food processing centers that are open to the public, where you can skin and deseed tomatoes, peel and core apples, cook soups and sauces, and seal food in cans or jars. -- Maria Newman Chicago Reader: "There is a bit of Grimm morbidity on display in the tiny front dining room, which remains as cramped as in past incarnations - a few animal skulls on the walls and a fearsome ax shelved in the foyer for summary beheadings of bad tippers, who will presumably contribute to the beet soup with blood sausage," Mike Sula writes in an engrossing review of one of his city's new Germanic spots. -- Jeff Gordinier New York: Flotus and kimchi: Michelle Obama tweets a recipe for kimchi that the White House prepared from Napa cabbage grown in the the garden. -- Maria Newman LA Weekly: February's here, and you know what that means: it's cod sperm season! -- Jeff Gordinier