Photo: Felt pumpkin pie! Inhabitots

Food News, Things I Crave, Green Your Eats, Tips, Tools & Techniques, and the Weekly Roundtable (a roundup of the most recent ChowMama posts). It’s a slow one this week… must be the curse of Friday the 13th! Have a spooky one.

Food News

• The fight over the future of food (via TreeHugger)
• 7 highlights (and a few low lights) in food since President Obama’s election (via TreeHugger)
• Corn fed vs grass fed meat (via Chicago Tribune)

Things I Crave

• Super cute, nontoxic, reusable birthday candle holders that keep wax off the cake. Love these! (via Oh Dee Doh)
• Adorable food-themed children’s book that uses bread baking to introduce different cultures (via Eensies)
• Food lover’s calendar with gorgeous food photography (via Michael Ruhlman)
• The Fakery Bakery’s felt Thanksgiving pumpkin pie—limited edition! (via Inhabitots)

Green Your Eats

• Help save a farm in Bed-Stuy, my neck of the woods! (via Civil Eats)
• Connecting buyers and sellers of locally grown food (via Springwise)

Tips, Tools & Techniques

• Thanksgiving tables from Flickr (via The Kitchn)

Weekly Roundtable

• I cooked up a little something from the lovely Pioneer Woman: Simple, Perfect Chili
• I was inspired by my new daytime TV habit: Pasta with Cauliflower and Fresh Ricotta