Best of web: Seoul restaurant, quince, mushrooms, Slow Food, duck, pumpkin pudding, London eats, chocolate geography, baguettes

* Lao-Ocean Girl has a review of Star Chef restaurant in Seoul, Korea. It looks mouth-wateringly delicious.

* I love the sound of these vanilla-poached quinces from Spittoon Extra. Best of all that the fruit was free! Here in the northern hemisphere it’s definitely the season for cooked fruit desserts – we had baked apples and [...]

Best of web: Food writer diet, whole grains, edible flowers, pick-your-own and cherry clafoutis

* Is it possible to be a food writer and still keep your waistline? Cookbook author Melissa Clark shares her secrets on Bon Appetit.

* Eating whole grains is good for your health but it doesn’t have to be brown rice day after day. Culinate has a glossary of whole grains, from amaranth to wild rice. [...]

Carnival of Cities: From Thai in Vermont to Chai in Dubai

I’m pleased to be hosting the Carnival of Cities on The Gooseberry Fool for the first time. Since this is a food blog, I was especially keen for posts with a culinary connection and I wasn’t disappointed. I hope you enjoy this week’s menu.
* Gray at SoloFriendly on great Thai restaurants in her hometown of [...]

The best of the web: Insects, clones, potatoes and fortune cookies

A weekly round-up of foodie news and features online.
* Should we be eating insects? Tim Dowling at The Guardian thinks so.
* Lively discussion on the Word of Mouth blog on the merits of cloned meat.
* 2008 is apparently the International Year of the Potato. (Maybe this will give me some inspiration for what to do [...]