Best Food Stories Of The Week: Mario Batali

We get it, you're busy. We're swamped, too—busy combing the Internet to keep you in the loop amid this fast-moving world, that is. Head into the weekend with these articles, food-related deep dives and Tasting Table reads stored away as dinner party conversation fodder.

All About Food

• After months out of the spotlight, Mario Batali is planning his next steps ...

• ... Even if people are, justifiably, far from ready.

• How sobriety changed the way award-winning chef Sean Brock looks at food.

• Tackling craft beer's bro code and its views on "bitch beer."

• Why the price of vanilla is currently higher than that of pure silver.

• The world's largest Chick-fil-A opens in NYC (and people are very excited).

Around the Web 

• Food insecurity is keeping students from graduating college.

• Germany just opened a museum dedicated to dachshunds.

• Stephen Hawking's last gift to the world? Treating 50 homeless people to an Easter meal. 

• You'll no longer have to sign those credit card receipts.

This Week on TT 

• Announcing our (100 percent women) guest chef dinner series.

• No, coffee doesn't need a cancer warning label.

• Author Julia Turshen's latest project is a database for marginalized voices in food. 

• Learn more about Alton Brown's return to TV.

• This new website is like "Spotify for cookbooks."