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Brain Freeze: Our Editor Samples 40 Scoops with Saxelby and Steingarten, Declaring the Winning Flavor to be … Hay?

I could hardly believe my food fortune when the fine folks at New Amsterdam Market asked me to judge their ice cream “Sunday.” But if you think such an undertaking sounds like a blast, you’ve obviously never attempted it. First, there’s the physical challenge of eating your way through all the flavors – 40 in this case!

Our Editor Drove a Mercedes SLK Through the Hudson Valley with ABC Kitchen Chef Dan Kluger, and All We Got Were These Beautiful Pictures of Farms

As we put the final touches on our fall issue–it’s about Edible-minded travel–there’s one piece in particular that we’re especially fond of. Our writers may eat their way through the Caribbean, Austria, Spain or South Africa, but it turns out the piece we’re really digging is on the trip closest to home.

Our Request for Best Food Songs Contest Winners, and Their Edible (a Bodum Grill!) Booty

Drum roll, please. Here are the four winners of our recent contest for best food songs. For best “song-about-food” nomination from our Manhattan entrants, we think Teanna’s suggestion of “Animal Crackers in my Soup” by Shirley Temple is pretty unique. (Sings Temple: “When they’re inside me where it’s dark, I walk around like Noah’s ark!” See the video here, and above.)

Win a Trip for Two to Sonoma Wine Country, Simply By Impressing our Photo Editor with Your Own BBQ-ed Food Porn

For those who’d like to taste the foodshed covered by our colleagues at the California Edibles up close and personal, we’ve just gotten word that our photo editor, Michael Harlan Turkell, is helping judge a grilling photo contest to win a trip for two to tour St. Francis Winery and Vineyard in Santa Rosa, the heart of Sonoma wine county.