A German politico is in hot water over covering up her lobster dinner. (Really. This isn’t parody.) (By Nicholas Day)

What the candidates eat says a lot about how they position themselves.

With presidents in mind, remember our leaders who liked good food. (By Sarah Inez Levy)

Argentine farmers riot, protest, withhold produce. (By Tea Austen Weaver)

This pair will be executed by the state. (By Keith Laidlaw)

Protest unspools as a Belgian firm contemplates acquiring Anheuser-Busch. (By Miriam Wolf)

Officials petition the federal government to declare the Chesapeake Bay blue crab fishery a disaster. (By Nicholas Day)

The Idaho senator offers up a recipe, and Foodgoat doesn’t need Freud to interpret it. (By Traci Vogel)

... and delicious porterhouse steaks. But surprise! They’re from the offspring of cloned animals. (By Miriam Wolf)

China worries about its pork supply as politicians scramble to avert a crisis. (By Tea Austen Weaver)

Who would you rather stand next to an open flame with? (By Traci Vogel)

A recipe-theft allegation may lightly roil the McCain camp and/or the Food Network. (By James Norton)

A Mississippi bill would punish restaurants for serving people deemed overweight. (By Traci Vogel)

What’s with European epicures suddenly renouncing their national culinary staples? (By Christy Harrison)

An American Idolater pledges to give up food until Sanjaya Malakar is voted off the mic. (By Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic)