Foodies and agricultural evangelists are calling for a Secretary of Food, or at least a Secretary of Agriculture who understands how screwy our food/farm industry is.

The Best Links:

1. Secretary of Real Food petition
2. Nominate Michael Pollan for Secretary of Agriculture
3. Michael Pollan Is Right - Featured on BuzzFeed
4. We Need A Secretary of Food, Don’t We?
5. Foodies pitch nominees to Obama
6. Can the guy from Stone Barns be the Secretary of Agriculture?
7. Obama’s “Secretary of Food”
8. “The hope is that the new secretary will be less aligned with industrial agribusiness and commodity farming than secretaries past.”

Thu Tran, a glass-blower in Brooklyn, hosts a cooking show that’s a mix between Rachael Ray and Pee Wee Herman’s Playhouse.

The Best Links:

1. Thu Tran’s Inflatable Popcorn!
2. Food Party: Episode 1
3. World’s Best, Strangest Cooking Show Found on Internet
4. You Are Invited To FOOD PARTY!
5. Iron Chef Meets Eureka’s Castle
6. This Is Your Brain On Drugs With A Side Of Bacon And Some Free Cigarettes
7. Thu Tran Wants to ‘Food Party’ All the Time

Nintendo Wii is releasing a cooking game that’s like a virtual Iron Chef . Gordon Ramsay has his own online game, complete with bleeps.

The Best Links:

1. Video Trailer for ‘Major League Eating: The Game’
2. Major League Eating the Game
3. Hell’s Kitchen The Game - Sign Up Now
4. Conquer all 35 recipes!
5. Cooking Academy Preview: I Made Some Gyozas
6. Iron Chef America as Video Game Coming to Wii and Nintendo DS This Summer
7. Cooking Mama Is a Great Game for Girls
8. Cooking Mama Is a Lot of Fun Despite the Primitive Graphics and Awkward Narration
9. Cooking Mama 2: The Video Game for Foodies
10. Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Video Game Surprisingly Addictive

Along similar lines as the infamous Harry Potter jelly beans , these disgustingly-flavored jelly beans come in a box mixed with the regular flavors.

The Best Links:

1. Complete List of Bertie Bott’s Flavor Beans
2. Reviews: Baby Wipe and Pencil Shaving JellyBeans Surprisingly Realistic-Tasting
3. Russian Roulette of Jelly Beans: A List of the Flavor Pairings
4. It’s Like an Interactive Game
5. Fun at the Jelly Belly Store
6. Ew, Got these in my Easter basket
7. Mix These Together with Regular Jelly Bellies and Let the Fun Begin

Camel’s milk cheese is making its way to the US.

The Best Links:

1. Camel Cheese - Coming Soon to a Grocery Near You
2. Camel’s Milk Tastes Great in Tea with Fresh Mint, Apparently
3. Principles of Milk Coagulation and Why Camel Cheese Will Always Remain a Specialty Food
4. Can You Make Cheese from Any Animal?
5. Camel Cheese Is Better for You than Most Other Cheese
6. Goat-Like, Brie-Like Camel Cheese Coming to a Restaurant Near You (If You Live in NYC)
7. Where Can I Get This Outside of NYC?

The Jewish community is torn over whether a kosher cheeseburger being served at a NYC restaurant should be considered sacrilegious.

The Best Links:

1. Answer My Question: If a Jewish person ate a cheeseburger, would they burn in hell?
2. Rabbi Weighs the Gastronomic and Spiritual Sides of the Kosher Cheeseburger
3. Heated Discussion over Morality of Kosher Cheeseburger
4. NY Post: Cheeseburgers Have Become a Big Hit with Local Jewish Community
5. Jackie Mason has cow over burger
6. If You Can Eat Real Cheese, What’s the Point?
7. No One Cared About the Bay-Ken Burger, So Why This?
8. Jews Are Offended by Cheeseburger Made with Soy Cheese

Baristas are practicing their latte art as they create designs using the foamed milk of any espresso drink.

The Best Links:

1. YouTube - Snail’s shell Alfredo Design
2. YouTube - Heart Alfredo Design
3. YouTube - The Hibiskus Alfredo Design (This One’s Pretty Cool)
4. YouTube - Watch the Zebra Alfredo Design
5. YouTube - Watch the Chasing hearts Alfredo Design
6. Washington Post Has a Video on Latte Art
7. More Cool Latte Art Pics
8. Examples of Great Latte Art - A Teddy Bear! A Snowman!
9. Free-Pour Latte Art Is Actually a Competitive Sport
10. A Barista Just Hit on Me with a Heart in My Latte!
11. Man Invents DIY Latte Art Printing Machine
12. Latte Artists Compete at the Millrock Free Pour Latte Art Championship in DC