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Our cultural foodie moment means that there are heaps of food-related news stories, info pieces and commentaries that appear on a daily basis. Here are our favourites of the week.

Lots of chatter this week about the Pennsylvania restaurant that banned children. Not everyone has a problem with it. Mine? The restaurant patrons who I often find obnoxiously loud and with bad table manners are the ones who are old enough to drink.

With La Taqueria about to open a new location here in Vancouver and Tres Carnales opening with a bang in Edmonton, tacos are on our mind. Do you know all the different kinds?

Although summer STILL does not seem to want to come out to play, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t partake in ice cream and slurpees.  Just be careful of brain freeze!

Dorie Greenspan: world-class baker and a woman from Mali in need of your cash?!

More etiquette: Today, coffee shops.

Twitter is the necessary “time suck” for restaurateurs.