Mid-April links

Where has the time gone? The winter is over and spring has sprung. Take your laptop (or iPad) outside to the sun (or shade) and read some (or all) of the articles I enjoyed over this past week.

• In Germany, a Taste of New York, via McDonald’s
• Cuisine in blue jeans
• Is Le Fooding, the French culinary movement, more than a feeling?
• Spring fling – Bay Area pastry chefs flirt with seasonal sweets
• Edible flowers can take the cake
• Let them eat madeleines