Food News, Things We Crave, Resources, Green Your Eats, and Tips, Tools & Techniques. Check out this week’s picks.

Food News

• Pistachio Recall Signals Tough Stance on Safety (via NY Times)
• Deep breathes, people. 7 Foods Banned in Europe Still Available in the U.S. (via Tree Hugger)
• Nearly 1 in 5 4-year-olds are obese (via CNN)
• Student/Farmworker Alliance Launches National “Dine with Dignity” Campaign Urging Aramark, Compass, Sodexo to Address Human Rights Crisis in Florida Agriculture (via CSR Wire)
• Picky Eaters May Be Determined by DNA (via A Child Grows in Brooklyn)
• Mayor of Baltimore turning formal gardens in front of City Hall into a 2,000 sf veggie garden! (via Baltimore Sun)
• On Earth Day 2010, Sun Chips will introduce the first fully compostable chip bag (via Lil Sugar)
• Rethinking School Vending Machines (via Gourmet)
• For reals?! This is barley news, but impossible to ignore: Kate Moss to pen a cookbook (via Perez Hilton)

Things We Crave

• Told you I’m turning the corner on whole wheat pasta! Check out this piece on the imported kind in the Atlantic Monthly
• Super cute food inspired lighting–so bummed that the cereal bowl is no longer available! (via Oh Dee Doh) 
• Make your own tablecloth (or other stuff) with these beautiful, affordable, ORGANIC fabrics (via Decor8)
• Oh! If it’s too late to run to Vosges, my FAVE fancy chocolate shop, to get this delicious Dark Chocolate Matzo this year, make a note to self for next Passover (via Cool Mom Picks)
• Pretty “Olives” + “Pits” snack bowls from Clay Swan (via The Kitchn)
• These food inspired tattoos don’t exactly belong in “Things We Crave”… do they, Michelle?! (via Eat Me Daily)

Resources

• Planting Project: Labeling Your Garden (via Oh Dee Doh)
• Go to Rome. The best city on Earth. And you can eat well there, too. Check out Christopher Kimball’s (of America’sTest Kitchen) guide to restaurants in my beloved Roma.
• Introducing Foodzie! Like Etsy for artisinal food makers. I could browse ALL day, everyday. Today’s craving: chocolate chip cookie brownies (via Cool Hunting)
• Trend Alert: Food Photo Mapping. Because you never know when you’ll be walking along (in NYC) and need to confirm on your iPhone that a nearby restaurant serves appetizing looking food
• All you Tweeters can get up-to-date food recall info via Twitter (details at Slash Food)

Green Your Eats

• The easiest herbs to grow indoors (via The Kitchn)
• Bring back an urban tradition–grow rhubarb in your backyard! (via Tree Hugger)
• HA!!! Do your part to save the earth: feed your child garbage (via Really Bad Parenting Advice)
• Follow Cheap Healthy Good’s Eat Your Veggies Experiment–phase 1 is “Meet the Eaters“

Tips, Tools & Techniques

• There is still time! How to bake for Passover without using leavening (via Slashfood)
• Play with your food! Go crazy with flavor combos when making your own ice cream–famed pastry chef, author, and food blogger, David Lebovitz tells you how (via LA Times)
• The Chicago Tribune reports on kitchen gadgets they loved most at the recent Housewares Show
• The Chicago Sun Times feeds six gues for $18! (via Cheap Healthy Good)
• It’s a tip you’ll find us promoting in any and every way we can: cook with your kids! (via What’s Cooking)

Bonus! Feeding Hack: How to Save Burnt-on-the-Bottom Baked Goods

Use your microplane zester! It saved the day when our shortbread burned (just slightly!) the other day. Gently shave off the too-browned part and keep the rest intact. Voila! And, if the browned part isn’t totally incinerated, use it as crunchies in your yogurt!