The Cut: Ten days on Marilyn Monroe's diet: raw eggs whipped in warm milk for breakfast, zero lunch, and for dinner, broiled meat, five carrots and a hot fudge sundae. - Emily Weinstein Dinner A Love Story: If you need a little motivation to cook Korean short ribs for your family, just take a look at that picture. -- Jeff Gordinier The Washington Post: Forget the debate: handicap the presidential race through food-based election polls. The president leads in the California Tortilla restaurant's Burrito Bowl and the 7-Eleven blue or red coffee-cup poll. Mitt Romney leads the Lincoln Restaurant mixology poll between the Elephant and Donkey cocktails. - Glenn Collins Cheese & Biscuits: The London Underground map, rendered in top restaurants. Anyone brave enough to try one for N.Y.C.? -- Julia Moskin Wine Spectator: Wise wine-buying advice from the ever-sage Matt Kramer: dawdle at your own risk. -- Eric Asimov Vanity Fair: Speaking of Blanca and its sister restaurant, Roberta's, how about a slide show of photos from the phone of the chef Max Sussman, including a fantastical creation - a pizza made with English muffin dough? - Emily Weinstein Handwritten Recipes: A blog by a seller of used books, about the scribbled recipes he often finds stuck between pages of random volumes, from Alexandre Dumas to Elmore Leonard. Poignant and deeply strange. -- Julia Moskin OC Weekly: Should kids get busted for bringing kombucha to school? -- Jeff Gordinier The Wall Street Journal: Commodity tomatoes are bright red and travel well, but they have no taste. To fix that you might return to local heirloom varieties, or - if you're one of the agribusiness giants - you can now employ "molecular breeding" to enhance genes that build taste into those inferior tomatoes. -- Glenn Collins Chicago Reader: Ready for a cocktail made of cheese? -- Jeff Gordinier Bloomberg Businessweek: The baseball playoff war is waged not just among the teams: Those perpetual archrivals, Coca-Cola (Powerade) and PepsiCo (Gatorade), are also facing off. An exclusive postseason contract has shut out Powerade, and Pepsi has insisted that managers drink their bottled water out of Gatorade cups. - Glenn Collins The San Francisco Chronicle: After the frenzy of Julia Child's centenary, a reminder that there were other major personalities in the food revolution -- notably Marion Cunningham and Edna Lewis. -- Julia Moskin Wine Terroirs: Bertrand Celce visits the other half of the French wine trade, dedicated vignerons whose reward is in the wines rather than fame and fortune. Today, Julien Altaber of St.-Aubin in Burgundy. -- Eric Asimov