Sampler Platter: Macadamia mash, choco-bacon, Twitter's downside

Macadamia mash, choco-bacon and the dark side of Twitter lead our Friday food roundup.

• Raw cooking with Jónsi Birgisson of Sigur Ros, who makes a macadamia mash.
• Glenfiddich Distillery will release a 50-year-old, single-malt Scotch whisky that will sell for about $16,500 a bottle. BBC
• Terroni to expand into large, new space. Eater LA
• If you're going to host a luncheon for sufferers of celiac disease, make sure the food is free of lactose and gluten. The Local
• Dan Akroyd and Jon Bon Jovi briefly take over the kitchen of "East Hamptons hot spot" Georgica. New York Post
• Cheripan: the best Argentinian food in Tijuana? Gastronomy
• What beer will the White House serve at Obama's "summit" with Professor Gates and the police officer who arrested him? New York Times
• Chocolate-covered bacon for $1.27 a slice in Colorado. Cafe Society
• File under Tortured Logic: When new food trucks move into a neighborhood, there is often conflict as they compete for business against long-running food trucks and bricks-and-mortar businesses. (We call that capitalism.) Since many of these new food trucks use Twitter to market themselves, the (occasionally violent) conflicts are Twitter's fault. Midtown Lunch

-- Elina Shatkin
Photo: Singer Jónsi Birgisson of Sigur Ros plays his guitar with a bow. Credit: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times

Comments

[b Crumpacker]

Chocolate covered bacon is on sale at the OC Fair. Yes, it's sweet and salty. My wife couldn't eat much of it. We recommend the deep fried avocado instead.