Sink your teeth into today's top stories from around the globe.

• A godfather's most precious gift? The bundt cake recipe that won a red ribbon from the county fair. - Salon

• Condé Nast is turning its magazine titles into restaurants. We'll take a table for two at the Vanity Fair Café. - Wall Street Journal

• With council members like Ferran Adriá and Heston Blumenthal, the Basque Culinary Center might just rock the cooking world. - TIME

• More Illinois families are receiving food stamps than ever before. - Bloomberg

• Holy cow! Ice cream is expensive. - New York Times

• High fructose corn syrup keeps getting smacked around. - Francis Lam