Posted by Sheryl Kirby in food for thought, news and media, on the web on December 3, 2008 at 8:17 pm

Here's some food for thought for today...

• If you didn't can your own tomato sauce this summer, odds are the stuff you're buying comes from California.
• Pannetone is the new fruitcake, especially when it comes to regifting. Serious Eats follows up - check the comments in both posts - apparently someone out there does like the stuff.
• More food trends for 2009, this time from Gastrodamus. Soup is the new stew!
• And, oh, let's keep going with the lists, hey - weird foods, lots of them. But don't eat ortolans; that's just mean and creepy.
• Not mean and creepy, unless you believe in Santa or are a vegetarian activist, is reindeer meat.
• The health halo - how slapping a "transfat free" or "low fat" label on a product causes people to underestimate the total calories.
• Country of Origin labelling in the US is making life tough for Canadian beef and pork producers.
• And for anyone wondering what I'd like for Christmas - a robot that flips pancakes would be lovely, thank you very much.