Time: Paellagate: this summer's controversial beer commercial, a Spanish tradition, shows young people putting (shocking!) onions in their paella. - Julia Moskin Chopsticks+Marrow: Pok Pok's Andy Ricker on ants and other insects: "Those things are subsistence foods that some people have gotten used to and developed a taste for, but are not and should not be taken for a dish found commonly on the Thai table. Red ant eggs and bee larvae are a different story though: delicious!" - Maria Newman Saveur: Betsy Andrews discovered sherry peppers sauce in Bermuda. Before long, she wanted to splash it on everything. - Jeff Gordinier The Economist: Alcohol is strictly forbidden to Muslims in Iran, and repeat offenders can face the death penalty. But why is Absolut Vodka selling for three times what it did last year in Tehran's northern suburbs, and why are sales of arak, a cheap local moonshine, booming? - Glenn Collins The Daily Meal: The Bonnaroo music festival captures the zeitgeist - and the food trucks that feed it do too. - Julia Moskin The Dallas Morning News: Who really invented cronuts, and when did he or she do it? A chef in Dallas, Najat Kaanache, claims she did this year, months ahead of Dominique Ansel in New York. Though both called their products cronuts, they don't taste the same. Bloomberg Businessweek: Enter the relaxation beverage, with chamomile, ginkgo, green tea, melatonin, valerian root and you name it. Brand names include BCalm, JustChill, Marley's Mellow Mood, Neurobliss and Zenify. Sales are expected to treble in two years to $223 million. - Glenn Collins Details: Dieters these days seem to have more new enemies than superheroes do. The latest nemesis? Inflammation. - Jeff Gordinier NPR: Olive or canola oil, and nuts: according to the Internal Medicine Journal of the American Medical Association, these are the key ingredients contributing to a 29 percent lower risk of developing lethal prostate cancer among men who, having already been found to have the disease, reduce their rice, bread, butter and sweets consumption by 10 percent in favor of olive oil. And nuts reduce the risk of developing metastatic prostate cancer by 18 percent. - Glenn Collins