Amuse Bouche

News from the world of food and wine that you might have missed this week.

• New cookbooks scheduled for Fall release.
• Here are nine affordable wines that go well with burgers on Labor Day.
• Store brands can be better than name brands according to consumer reports.
• For you wine investors out there, Burgundy is beginning to rival Bordeaux in Asian markets.
• 24 useful kitchen tips from Serious Eats.
• We’ve been hearing about overuse of antibiotics for farm animals for years. There is still no resolution of the problem.
• The plight of restaurant workers requires more attention. The fast food workers strike which has hit 60 cities is a good start. In Australia, McDonald’s pays their workers $15 per hour.
• Fast-food salads are no more healthy than the burgers.
• Weird. If you love bacon, Ford is selling bacon-like vinyl strips to decorate the Ford Fiesta.
• The refrigerator of the future, according to GE designers.
• Bon Appetite’s 25 food trends for 2013.
• Is Filipino food the next great food trend?
• A compendium of the best food stories from the Onion which is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary.
• Japan invents an in-car rice cooker for people on the go. I thought Americans led the most frantic lives.