Mailhos: Risking the sting of nettles with an eye toward whipping up some nutritious spring pesto. - Jeff Gordinier Esquire: Even more reasons to embrace your mortar and pestle. - Melissa Clark The Associated Press: Thought your moose lasagna tasted a little funny lately? Ikea pulled it from its European stores after tests found it contained traces of pork. (Via NBC News) - Tiina Loite. Dinner, a Love Story: One hundred rules of dinner sounds like too many, but it's fun to agree or argue with each one. Heartily agree with No. 52, not so much. - Julia Moskin The New York Times: The association between red-meat consumption and heart-disease risk might be related to more than just the saturated fat and cholesterol in the meats. It might also be a little-studied chemical that is burped out by bacteria in the intestines after people eat red meat, a new study shows. - Maria Newman Truffle Association of British Columbia: Tuber melanosporum, the Perigord black truffle of Southern Europe, has now been harvested for the first time in the Fraser Valley of this Canadian region, after a yearslong planning and seeding effort. But does it smell and taste like the true black gold? - Glenn Collins Bloomberg: Baby boomers, particularly men, have pumped up the sale of small kitchen appliances, according to market researchers. They also found that purchases jumped 10 percent, to $5.51 billion, in 2012. That's twice the growth rate of the whole $18.3 billion small-appliance category. - Damon Darlin Saveur: Maybe you've never given much thought to the architecture of those chocolate-covered caramels known as "turtles." But one shop in Massachusetts has a whole aesthetic philosophy about them. - Jeff Gordinier Ideas in Food: A recipe for gluten-free pasta good enough for an Italian. - Melissa Clark The Los Angeles Times: On the virtues of concise recipe writing, or how Elizabeth David squeezed 1,000 recipes into a 217-page cookbook. - Julia Moskin Eater: What are they serving at the new wedding chapel opened at the Denny's in Las Vegas? Pancake Puppies wedding cakes and Grand Slamosa cocktails. And they throw in Denny's T-shirts proclaiming, "Just Married." (Via The Daily Meal) - Glenn Collins The Guardian: Paging T.S. Eliot: can these dishes cure the April blues? - Jeff Gordinier The Associated Press: The mystery of the missing Nutella. (Via New York) - Maria Newman Poetry Foundation: From Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a poem about growing up - and memories of cheesecake, grape Bubble Yum and fried lumpia. - Jeff Gordinier