Fast Company: For the run-up to Valentine's Day, a paean to the Philadelphia-based John & Kira's chocolates, especially the $189 Bee My Love Tug Tower, a fantasy of ganache-filled chocolates, caramel honeybees, drunken figs and dark-chocolate ladybugs. - Glenn Collins The Village Voice: As if you needed an excuse to eat pie (and you do), it's National Pie Day. Suggestions for celebrating run from a lighter-than-air lemon meringue at North End Grill to the seriously dense black bottom oatmeal pie at Four and Twenty Blackbirds. - Patrick Farrell Virginia Willis via WordPress: This week's ethical/culinary scandal: more shocking than Paula Deen's diabetes. - Julia Moskin The Journal News: How a working mother with a weakness for boxed Kraft macaroni and cheese spent a year determined to feed her family healthier meals. - Jeff Gordinier Grub Street: The folks at Franny's talk about their plans to move into a space that's double their current size, with twice as many pizza ovens, and a reservationist. The old Franny's will become a new Italian restaurant called Mario's. - Nick Fox Wine Terroirs: Bertrand Celce visits the vigneron Nicolas Carmarans in the beautiful, mountainous region of Aveyron deep in the Massif Central, a reminder that as well as we think we know the wines of France, little-known grapes and appellations are still awaiting discovery. - Eric Asimov The Wall Street Journal: Breakfast at Balthazar. Borscht at Veselka. Raw oysters at Lure Fishbar. Martinis at Cafe Loup. Some insights from New Yorkers like Gay Talese, Gabrielle Hamilton and Sean Avery on where to eat and drink in New York. - Jeff Gordinier Gourmet: Some say that if you want good cheap food, talk to cab drivers. Matt Gross applies that theory to Saigon. - Nick Fox The New Yorker: In Tijuana, where revelers indulged during Prohibition and the Caesar salad was born, one chef's crusade to help revive the city, using indigenous food. (Subscription required) - Patrick Farrell Decanter: English sparkling wine has earned praise throughout the world in the last few years, but vineyard diseases pose a worrisome prospect. - Eric Asimov The Big Chair: Some thoughts on how the way a wine tastes is inextricably tangled up in the context of the moment during which it is imbibed. - Jeff Gordinier Time Out New York: Devouring and deconstructing the symbolic dishes of the Lunar New Year at Tung Shing House with the cast of Broadway's "Chinglish." - Jeff Gordinier Men's Journal: More evidence that eating well trumps supplements: Although 40 percent of American men take Vitamin E, a long-term study funded by the National Cancer Institute suggests that the fat-soluble nutrient can increase the risk of prostate cancer. - Glenn Collins Gourmet Live: A quest for sheep's butt in Kurdistan. - Jeff Gordinier Crain's New York Business: Developments in the world of food delivery: Fresh Direct is considering expanding to the Bronx and beyond; a small restaurant-delivery startup, FoodToEat.com, is trying to undercut bigger rivals like GrubHub by charging restaurants just a dime for each order. - Patrick Farrell The New York Times: Is food grown a few miles from the site of the Fukushima meltdown really safe from radioactive contamination? Many Japanese consumers and farmers have their doubts, and have begun testing for radiation on their own. - Jeff Gordinier Financial Times: Burgundy producers have high hopes for the 2010 vintage, red and white, and Jancis Robinson is cautiously optimistic that they are right. - Eric Asimov Food and Wine: Nick Fauchald sheds some light on the unlikely success story of the Perennial Plate, an ongoing video project that serves up sporadically flinch-worthy adventures in sustainable eating. - Jeff Gordinier New York: Bewildered by the Texas cult of the breakfast burrito, the Underground Gourmet embarks on a crash course here. - Patrick Farrell Grow Movie: Here's the trailer for "Grow!," a new documentary about idealistic young farmers ... Slamdance: ... and a peek at "The First Season," a much darker documentary about a young family's crushing struggle to run a dairy farm. - Jeff Gordinier