Singer David Gray, currently on tour promoting his new album, dishes about road food, the dishes he misses and the Southern classic he just can't wrap his head around.

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Tacos. Tattoos. Top Chef. Just another normal day at Eatocracy headquarters. Cooking is notably one of the great tattooed occupations, and when we received word that chef Bryan Voltaggio was getting his fifth tattoo, we decided to go above and beyond the call of journalistic duty and go along for the ride. The editorial team that tattoos together stays together. (It will all make sense in a second.)

Might we note that Bryan Voltaggio is the executive chef and owner of VOLT restaurant in Frederick, Maryland - which has earned three-stars reviews from both The Washington Post and Washingtonian. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, and proud protégé of culinary mastermind Charlie Palmer, Voltaggio also competed on season six of Bravo's "Top Chef," where he was runner-up.

Without further ado, food and drink: meet food and ink.

Five Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them: Bryan Voltaggio
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iReporter Knox Jennings snapped a picture of this sign while he was traveling in Slidell, Louisiana on August 16th, before going on to eat some shrimp in Bon Secour, Alabama.

He told iReport editor Nicole Saidi, "I know definitely that the people down there who've lived for generations shrimping and fishing need to make a living, and I know that I trust the government to tell me the truth, believe it or not, about the food. Unless I get an alert that it's dangerous, I'm going to eat it."

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Salmonella? Shmalmonella!

"Hi, my name is Danielle & I am going to eat eggs until the day I die. I don't care if I die from bad eggs or just cholesterol, but either way I love an egg. I am going to have eggs, fried, boiled, scrambled, and with cheese. Give me my eggs please. I might even get a divorce when I get married because my husband Mike is going to be tired of me cooking eggs ALL the time for breakfast, lunch & dinner....but I love eggs more than Michael." - FROM EGGS WITH LOVE FROM EGGS WITH LOVE

And Edith Massey sure loved her eggs. Enjoy one of the very, very few safe for work scenes from John Waters' 'Pink Flamingos'.

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Every so often, we're highlighting a local or regional blogger we think you ought to know about. We can’t be everywhere at once, so we look to these passionate eaters, cooks and writers to keep us tapped into every facet of the food world. Consider this a way to get to know a blog’s taste buds, because, well, you should.

Who: John Curtas, of Eating Las Vegas
Where: Las Vegas, Nevada
Twitter: @eatinglasvegas
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A Congressional subcommittee holds a hearing on ensuring the safety of seafood from the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the massive oil spill there.

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CNN Health has the FULL STORY on the egg recall. Read more about where raw eggs might lurk

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Juuuust in case you haven't gotten a chance to crack out of your shell today, 380 million eggs have been recalled over fears of salmonella.

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

• Kate Moss is a jam-making renaissance woman. - Daily Mail

• In which Pete Wells tries and fails to help his son catch a fish. - New York Times

• A hostess at a Disneyland restaurant is suing after not being able to wear her headscarf at work. - Los Angeles Times

• Want to save the planet? Drink more whisky. - Guardian via Mother Nature Network

• Frank Bruni divulges his opinion on why food television is "yum-o" to viewers. - The Atlantic