• I am soooo excited. They’re going to make a Canadian edition of Top Chef! And the Food Network wants people to contribute their ideas.
• Article on food paparazzi (a.k.a. people who take photos of their food while at restaurants), and more detail from Grant Achatz himself. My #1 rule. DON’T USE YOUR FLASH. You generally get better photos without it anyway. And it prevents your camera from irritating other diners. Other things – turn off that annoying beep noise on your point and shoots. Ask permission if you think you might be rude with your photos/video. And who on Earth brings tripods to dinners??
• Anthony Bourdain and Frank Bruni discuss becoming too obsessed with your food
• Turkish doner kebab becomes Germany’s favourite fast food
• Author Michael Chabon’s Quest for Poutine in Toronto
• And just in time for Earth Day, The Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers is installing two exercise bicycles hooked up to generators. If you hop on and make enough electricity you will get a free meal.

And lastly, I am happy to announce an official Brûlée Blog contest!

The kind folks at Sobeys have offered to give one of my readers 1375 Club Sobeys points, which works out to approximately $10.00 in free groceries. Yes, I said free groceries!

Club Sobeys is Sobey’s free loyalty card where you can earn reward points through your purchases and redeem them for groceries, appliances, gift cards, and Aeroplan Miles. Since September 2008, more than 2.2 million Club Sobeys members have collected over 6 billion Club Sobeys points, and redeemed them for over $26,000,000 in free groceries. If you don’t already have a Club Sobeys card, you can sign up for a free one right over here. Please note that the points (and therefore also the contest) are only available to residents of Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Ok so how can you win these wonderful points? Simply follow any of these three options:

1. Post a comment here. And make sure to include your e-mail address in the e-mail address line so that I can tell Sobeys who the winner is! If you don’t want to post a comment, feel free to send me an e-mail instead at bruleeblog@{no-spamming}gmail.com (remove the stuff between and including the fancy brackets).

2. Talk about this contest on your blog, Twitter, Facebook, etc. and post a link to it here in an additional comment. No limits as to how many of these you do.

3. E-mail your friends and have them mention your name when they post their comment.

This contest closes at end of day May 7th.

Disclaimer: I have not been paid anything nor given anything to promote Club Sobeys.