• Today is National Rum Day. Celebrate with 27 recipes, from punch to dessert. [Examiner]
• If you’re a picky eater, you might have a disorder. [SFoodie]
• Outside Lands: what the bands ate (Arcade Fire’s Pacific Catch run? Phish keyboardist’s Loving Cup stop?) [Eater]
• A week of SF Chefs in photos… from hand-cut ice in Japanese whisky to foie marshmallows. [The Perfect Spot]
• From Jeremy Piven to Usher to Rachael Ray, behold the worst celebrity tippers. [Short Order/Miami Times via Food 52]
• There’s a psychic in L.A. who will “read [a] person’s energy” and put her cosmic insights inside a fortune cookie. Of course there is. [Squid Ink/LA Weekly]
• In Dubai during Ramadan, fast-breaking Iftar feasts for the wealthy are often huge sources of food waste, an irony when many in the Muslim world are facing famine. [IHT via Reuters]
• Food-costs inflation is affecting Sysco’s sales. Yeah, well, it’s affecting everyone else, too. [WSJ]