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

• When it comes to potato chips, you can have it your way - but don't get crazy! - Guardian

• Game meat for the game. It's going to be a wild party! - CHOW

• Virginia Mericle suffered from agoraphobia until her passing in 2009. She left behind 45,000 menus, one of her only connections to the outside world. - The Atlantic

• 100 years ago, California Chardonnay was born. - Reuters

• We know our calculus: 0.5 NaCl + 1g MgSO4 + 6.4 g Ca(OH) + 3.1 g of NaHCO3 + 2.3 g Mg(OH)2 + good ol' fashioned H20 = homemade mineral water. - Gilt Taste