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

• Sara Dickerman doesn't mean to sound salty, but pepper kind of sucks. - Slate

• For these food lovers, you don't have to see it to believe ... that it's delicious. - Foodie Buddha

• Does your diet have a sexual orientation? - New York Times

• Bye, bye "The Martha Stewart Show," it was a good six years while it lasted! - NASDAQ

• Remembering "the Dean of American Cuisine," more formally known as the late, great James Beard. - Saveur