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

• Give yeast a chance! How to cook with Marmite and Vegemite. - Grub Street

• "The Ron Paul Family Cookbook" is chock-full of Libertarian recipes. - Wall Street Journal

• Urbanites raising and slaughtering their own meat may eliminate the corporate food system, but the process can still ruffle some feathers. - Slate

• Jay Rayner on mastering the dark art of negative restaurant criticism. - Guardian

• Bloomberg's soda ban will lose fizz with Conan O'Brien's solution: An all-you-can drink "Sodateria" in New Jersey. - Eater