Food News, Things We Crave, Green Your Eats, and Tips, Tools & Techniques. Check out this week’s picks. And don’t forget today’s yummy recipe for alcohol-free Bananas Foster Crepes below.

Food News

• Food, Inc. (a food documentary opening in select cities today) takes an uncomfortably close look at how the foods we eat get produced (via the Huffington Post)
• Did you know that there’s a World Food Prize? Me neither! But this seed-breeder just won it! (via Voice of America)
• Cookie and Gourmet (2 of our faves) are sponsoring Kids’ Restaurant Week in DC, Chicago, and NYC. Grown ups pay $29 and kids pay their age from 5-7 pm. Fun! (via Mommy Poppins)

Things We Crave

• I like a Swiss Army Knife. And I like my kitchen utensils. So what’s not to love about this fun Swissarmius Cutlery Holder (via Swiss Miss)

Green Your Eats

• Check out the solar-cooked meals this guy (who built modern off-the-grid digs for $1600) makes (via Treehugger) 
• As if the food crisis and the fuel crisis weren’t enough, don’t forget the water crisis! What’s the “water footprint” of your food ?(via Treehugger) 

Tips, Tools & Techniques

• A reminder about kitchen food safety in the form of a 1996 FDA short call Dirty Little Secrets (via Slashfood)
• Is there a better way to teach your kids where food comes from than to take them to an animal farm? Here’s a list of NJ farms for those of us in the metropolitan area (via Mommy Poppins)