Gothamist: Two barometers of how scary this hurricane is looking: Even the Starbucks are closed -- most of the New York City stores, anyway. And the Park Slope Food Co-op is in an even bigger dither than usual. -- Patrick Farrell The New Yorker: Has the chef Anthony Bourdain's television shtick "left a crude hickey on this country's food culture"? The chef and writer Tamar Adler thinks so. -- Julia Moskin Smithsonian: Carve that Halloween pumpkin at your own risk. A team of orthopedic-surgeon researchers has enumerated the principal dangers in using, yikes, cadaver hands. Unfortunately, many injuries leave victims with "compromised hand function." - Glenn Collins New York: "Gowanus" is not a word you'd expect to find next to the phrase "food scene." But there, crowding the post-industrial banks of Brooklyn's Superfund site, is a new Superfood site. That is, unless Hurricane Sandy spoils the picnic. -- Patrick Farrell Saveur: A video narrative about the food of the (now long-gone) Jewish community in Aleppo. -- Julia Moskin Food Politics: Marion Nestle considers the new front-of-package voluntary labeling system in Great Britain, and how superior it is to American labeling. But it falls far short of Mark Bittman's recent labeling suggestions in The Times's Sunday Review. -- Glenn Collins The New York Times: So what if schoolchildren are rejecting their healthy new cafeteria menus? Good eating habits, Jane Brody writes, begin at home. -- Patrick Farrell