The Wall Street Journal: He marshaled a national roll-out of specialty coffee drinks. He championed expanded menus and double-lane drive-throughs. He's 48 years old. And he's the first African-American chief executive of McDonald's. His name is Don Thompson (above), and he'll take over the chain's 33,000 restaurants in 119 countries in June when the current leader, Jim Skinner, retires. (If you don't subscribe to the Journal, check out the Chicago Tribune.) - Glenn Collins The Daily Meal: A performance artist is planning to toss a giant salad on the High Line for Earth Day. - Jeff Gordinier Mother Jones: Tom Philpott checks in on Walmart's push to carry local and organic food. - Julia Moskin Do Bianchi: Angelo Gaja issues a missive on the state of the Italian wine industry. Jeremy Parzen translates. - Eric Asimov West Side Rag: As television drama goes, "Mad Men" it's not: Two Upper West Side restaurants, Gabriela's and Elizabeth's Neighborhood Table, have installed cameras that live-stream to Gander TV, a Web site that allows prospective customers to check out the scene from home. No word yet on how diners feel about their roles in the reality show. - Patrick Farrell SF Weekly: Tantalizing crawfish grits in the Bay Area ... The Santa Barbara Independent: ... and from a bit farther south on the California coast, a recipe for chicken chili verde. - Jeff Gordinier Eater: Byron Bates, the new general manager at Isa, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has revamped the wine list. He's assembled only those wines made without sulfur dioxide, an antioxidant and preservative. Talia Baiocchi investigates. -Eric Asimov The Washington Post: OMG!!! Long story short, these texting tics are also the names of wines, from a company called TXT Cellars. These are the kind of things that happen when vintners market to millennials - labels like Cupcake Vineyards and Middle Sister Wines. - Patrick Farrell The Guardian: Now here's a new celebrity chef whose show (in our opinion) ought to be imported to the United States: Ghalia Mahmoud, who specializes in traditional Egyptian dishes, and whose star has risen in her native country in the heady months following the Arab Spring. - Jeff Gordinier The Telegraph: Panacea du jour: seaweed toast, made by baking the plant into the bread. It's low in sodium, high in minerals and fills you up quickly, according to a British study that found that men eating it consumed 180 fewer calories a day. (Via Gawker.) - Patrick Farrell Mother Jones: Mitt Romney has announced the members of his campaign's agricultural advisory committee, and they include a lobbyist for both Cargill and Monsanto, an executive at DuPont's high-tech seed division, a former president of the association representing the high fructose corn syrup industry, and other agribusiness advocates. - Glenn Collins Esquire: Some deep wisdom from the bar at P.J. Clarke's. - Jeff Gordinier The Wall Street Journal: The restaurant pop-up has emerged as a valuable, multipurpose gadget in a toolbox depleted by the downturn. - Patrick Farrell Hawk Wakawaka Wine Reviews: In love with frappato? Me, too. - Eric Asimov The New York Times: After years of indulgence as The Times's restaurant critic, Frank Bruni develops gout - and learns, not unhappily, how to cut back on red meat, booze and other delights. - Patrick Farrell