Sunday Reading
Michael Laiskonis, executive pastry chef of Le Bernardin, compares cooking and architecture and provides a recipe for his interpretation of a mille feuille.
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl visits a farmers' market in the US Virgin Islands. [Gourmet]
Wineries in California try to "cork the problem of limos and tour buses bringing partyers to their venues." [LA Times, via Slate]
A 33 cent tax on plastic bags in Ireland has been resoundingly successful: "Within a year, nearly everyone had bought reusable cloth bags... Plastic bags were not outlawed, but carrying them became socially unacceptable." [NYT]
Sara Dickerman on pudding: "sometimes the comfort of a comfort food has less to do with eating than it does with cooking." [NYTM]
Hearst has been poaching editors from Every Day with Rachael Ray to potentially start a Food Network magazine. [Portfolio, via Slashfood]
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