The Wednesday Wrap: Food News to Go

The Vintner Has Awakened!: Actor Kyle MacLachlan returns to his Twin Peaks roots to produce his own Washington wine, Pursued by Bear. [Wine Spectator via Grub Street]

Books for the Home Cook: Amy Scattergood offers a fall cookbook preview, noting that home cooks will likely be leaving new books from Thomas Keller, Feran Adria, Grant Achatz, and Heston Blumenthal to the pros. [LA Times]

Go-To Ingredients: A survey of Boston chefs reveals some of their secret ingredients. [Boston Globe]

Tastes Like Chicken?: Sarah Palin has brought moose meat back into the spotlight. [NY Times]

"Thali"-a Lounge: Northwest meets India with Poppy, the much anticipated new restaurant from Herbfarm legend Jerry Traunfeld, which just opened on Seattle's Capitol Hill. [Voracious]

Sweet Teeth: Sundaes, floats, and milkshakes get sophisticated makeovers in the hands of LA pastry chefs. [LA Times]

TiVo Alert: Spain... On the Road Again, the culinary PBS series featuring Mario Batali, Mark Bittman, and Gwenyth Paltrow eating their way across Spain, kicks off this weekend. [Spain... On the Road Again]

TiVo Alert: Take II: Paula's Party goes political as Michelle Obama stops by to help Paula Deen in the kitchen. Barack's favorite food: a "steaming bowl of chili." [AP]

Bruni Beat: It's one star ("good") for Brooklyn restaurant James. "James, tucked among residential buildings in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, is the kind of modest, warm refuge produced by a chef who wants to simplify things, to personalize things, to work on a scale that doesn't require or invite the meddling of too many outsiders." [NY Times]