The Wednesday Wrap: Food News to Go

Fun with Knives: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's an adorable little bear carved from a lemon. James Parker works his magic and takes fruit and vegetable carving to a whole new level (radish rose garnishes need not apply).  [NY Times]

Say Cheese(cake)!: Amy Scattergood takes a loving look at the simple pleasure of the iconic cheesecake. [LA Times]

Digital Dish: The Bon Appétit website gets a whole new look with a very modern, user-friendly face-lift. EIC Barbara Fairchild calls the relaunch "redesigned, redefined, and-in my not-so-humble opinion-super-cool and infinitely useful bonappetit.com Web site." [bonappetit.com via doriegreespan.com] 

Into the Woods: Author and forager Katie Letcher Lyle seeks out morels and other "prized fungi" on a Virginia mountain range. [Washington Post]

Future TiVo Alert: No new episodes of Everyday Italian will be filmed (but will continue to air), but the Food Network has announced new mom Giada De Laurentiis' new show, Giada at Home. [Food Network via Food Network Addict]

Kids in the Kitchen: It's much more than PB&J and mac-and-cheese in the new wave of cookbooks for the younger set. [NY Times]

The Bruni Beat: It's two stars ("very good") for Eighty One, a new restaurant which "provides an especially clear example of a kind of culinary preening--call it ego food--that may speak less to the satisfaction of customers than to the self-regard of proprietors, who want you to marvel at the effort-per-bite ratio and the variety of techniques at play." [NY Times]

--BTP