The Los Angeles Times: California adopts a ban on serving shark fin, which is good news for shark populations, though not such good news for shark fin soup lovers. - Melissa Clark NPR: Cage-free eggs means - what? Well, the uncaged chickens wander around in an enclosed house. The uncaged nutritional value may not be superior. But are the birds less stressed, is there less disease and better quality? Michigan State University is conducting a research study. - Glenn Collins The Mom 100: The author Katie Workman's easy recipe for Chinese-style ribs that can be baked or grilled, with a photo of her small son the first time he tasted them: "In my mind the caption for this photo was always, "For the love of God, where have you people been hiding the pork?,"" she writes - Julia Moskin Time Out New York: A guide to the best of Chinatown all over New York City - from Manhattan neighborhoods to Elmhurst, Queens. With a noodle explainer and a primer on Far East pastries. - Maria Newman The Huffington Post: The Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) is getting ready to launch its first exhibit - on cereal - featuring a giant puffer gun. Because who doesn't love to puff things? - Melissa Clark The Wall Street Journal: Government catch limits have restricted New England fishermen's access to haddock, flounder and cod, so Massachusetts chefs are experimenting with "trash fish," including dogfish, sea robins, tautogs and, really, the Cape Cod Blood Cockle. - Glenn Collins The Guardian: A British academic on why genetically engineered food is not the (only) enemy. Instead, he writes, there are other technologies to be explored, and many other conversations to be had - and he questions "why policy in such an important and diverse area as food has reached such narrow and sterile deadlock." - Julia Moskin Modern Mami: How to make sofrito, the basis of a lot of Puerto Rican dishes. - Maria Newman Mpls. St. Paul: Sorry Iowa, but Minnesota's state fair wins the blue ribbon for the most intriguing, ever-changing food lineup. New for 2013: the chopped hot dog sandwich. - Julia Moskin The Economist: More than proper digestion is involved in the functioning of the human microbiome, that collection of 100 trillion bacteria that lives in the digestive system. Though it enables people to extract many more calories from their food, the microbiome can also be linked to liver cancer among the extremely obese, according to newly published findings. - Glenn Collins