Food52: Does slowly cooking broccoli in olive oil for two hours sound crazy or crazy good? - Nick Fox and Julia Moskin Specialty Food.com: Can you say ... super broccoli? A team of British scientists has developed a new broccoli breed that offers three times more glucoraphanin - that heart-disease-rate-lowering, cancer-fighting component - than ho-hum garden-variety broccoli. - Glenn Collins The Brooklyn Ink: Behind the weird scenes at Do or Dine in Bed-Stuy. - Jeff Gordinier Brooklyn Guy: What is the best way to open and pour old bottles of wine? The Brook assembles an expert panel for a lively exchange of opinions. - Eric Asimov The New York Daily News: As New York's new cardinal, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan may be a bigger power these days, but he's apparently a smaller figure. His diet doctor reveals that the prelate has lost 25 pounds (and kept it off) in the last year, but that he could stand to lose another 25 sometime soon. - Patrick Farrell Gothamist: A call goes out to bone lugists - those using marrow grooves as chutes for drinking beer: Stop the madness! - Nick Fox Kate Christensen: The novelist remembers the floury gravies of a stay in Germany - and the culinary euphoria of fleeing to Brittany and feasting on sea bass and oysters and lobster. - Jeff Gordinier Psychology Today: New research on Alzheimer's shows a large number of cases occur spontaneously - not because of genetic inheritance - emphasizing the role of diet, and lifelong food choices, in keeping the body from developing the disease. - Glenn Collins Slate: Ever wondered whether cigar lovers are more pretentious than wine connoisseurs? Calvin Trillin introduces the A.C.I. scale (don't ask) to judge. - Eric Asimov and Patrick Farrell The New York Times: On a morning with thick frost on the windowpanes, a hot roast beef sandwich soaked with "broth" is sounding pretty hard to resist. - Jeff Gordinier The Des Moines Register: Dan Rather says Iowa State University helped a donor try to get tens of thousands of Tanzanians evicted so his company could grow soybeans and corn on their land. Company has now backed off the plan. Via @Jane Black. -Nick Fox Girl Farm Kitchen: A recipe for Meyer lemon sherbet. - Jeff Gordinier Wine Terroirs: In words and photos, Bertrand Celce visits the excellent Domaine Plageoles, the leader in rejuvenating the Gailllac appellation in southwest France. - Eric Asimov The New York Review of Books: The expatriate American writer Edmund White on French eating habits, in Balzac's time and today. - Julia Moskin So You Want to Be a Sommelier: Winter, chilly, thirsty, negroni. A recipe. - Eric Asimov Fast Company: Soda with fresh-squeezed fruit juice: a great idea, but more complicated than you might imagine. - Jeff Gordinier