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News: Ew, Centipede-on-a-Stick

Around the world, creepy crawlers make a tasty snack. Here's a sampling of international insect-fare.

News: Get Your Geek Cookies Here

Cater your next geek fest with the services of online bakery Geeky Cookies. Available in sets of a dozen, each in the $20-$25 range.

Skip the Drive Thru: DIY Big Mac Recipe

The secret to making a (healthier) Big Mac replica is all in the sauce. Gotta get that special sauce just right. Local Lemon does a somewhat gourmet spin on the classic fast food burger, ultimately aiming for true authenticity.

News: Extremely Intricate Holiday Egg Nog Recipe

I can't resist Luxirare's decadent, over the top food tutorials... even when it involves making white chocolate egg molds covered in edible gold leaf and injected with egg nog.

News: Looks Like Sushi, Tastes Like Cupcake

More goodies from Not So Humble Pie, the bakers that brought us Candied Bacon Cake and Science Cookies. These artfully crafted sushi cupcakes demonstrate real cake decorating mastery. Click through for more info on how they were made.

News: Soba Noodle Champion Slurps 399 Bowls in 10 Minutes

Eat your heart out, Joey Chestnut. There's a new super-speed-eater in town, and she means business. 45-year-old Hatsuyo Sugawara downed an incredible number of 399 bowls of soba noodles in just ten minutes at the annual All-Japan Wanko Soba Eating Championship this past Sunday. The noodle queen calls herself a food fighter, and has been coined "the witch".

News: Candied Bacon Cake

Not So Humble Pie, creator of yummy cookie lab rats, chocolate atoms and gingerbread scientists (to name a few), brings us a delectable contribution to the world of cake decorating: the candied bacon cake. This cake looks like bacon, and actually tastes a little bit like bacon, too.

Holiday Cookies: Lab Mice, Chocolate Atoms & Gingerbread Scientists

In spirit of the recently posted brightly frosted cupcake periodic table, here are some equally clever, beautiful science-themed holiday cookies from Not So Humble. The creative cooking blog does not offer full instructions for most of these, but does lend tips here and there. Get inspired and bake your own holiday cookies.

News: Eat Your Way Through the Periodic Table (Yum! Cupcakes)

Science geeks behold, the perfect dessert. The cupcake Periodic Table. Pretty simple to do-it-yourself. Start with basic cupcakes in a square mold and decorate!

News: Obama! Are You Eating that Chicken Wing Correctly?

Yes, there is a right way and a wrong way to eat a chicken wing. And yes, Obama likes chicken wings just like everybody else does.

News: Make-It-Yourself LEGO Gummies

Turkey day is over, and you have this nice Friday-Saturday-Sunday stretch before it's back the daily grind. Here's a project that inspires both young and old: LeGummies brick shaped gummy candies. Geeky LEGO bliss.

News: Cook a Bikini-d Bird with Mashed Potato Volcanoes

Extreme Holiday Ideas has posted several fun Thanksgiving projects this season. Check out some of my favorites:

News: Who Says Gardening and Hot Dogs Don't Mix?

There, I Fixed It passes along an easy, redneck solution to grilling some dogs. All you need is a rake.

News: Make-It-Yourself Panda Bread

Perfect Pandas was kind enough to post link to an English translation of a Japanese Panda Bread How-To (made with green tea and chocolate dough).

No Lightsaber Required: DIY Jar Jar Binks Salad

Yum, geekdom fun. A Jar Jar salad. Wonderfully silly How-To from Only Knives: "A side dish from the Dark Side: Sculpt Jar Jar Binks out of a root vegetable."

News: DIY Super Fancy Potato Chips

Luxirare, my very favorite, over-the-top, superfluous (in the best possible sense) recipe blog. We've witnessed the Pie-On-a-Stick, and marveled the beautiful Jell-O shots. Now Luxirare demonstrates how to make some exceedingly fancy potato chips. These aren't your typical store bought snacks.

News: YUMmmy Cheeseburger Cupcakes

Grossly-yummy DIY cheeseburger cupcakes by KateDW: "My boyfriend surprised me on my birthdaywith these amazing little cupcakes. They were a huge hit so we decided to make a how-to page for everyone that always asks about them. "

News: Happy Halloween Brain-Cake!

Scrambling for a last minute disgustingly-yummy Halloween party idea? Looking for a dessert to go with your gruesome meat hands?

Yummy: Mutilated Hands...Edible

Ew. If you can stomach it, if you can even imagine yourself eating it, Not Martha (they really live up to their name with this one... this is definitely not a Martha Stewart project) has posted a tutorial on making a "Meat Hand".

News: Gruesomely-Awesome Star Wars Wedding Cake

Exquisitely detailed Star Wars wedding cake! Amazing sugar art representation of Luke Skywalker lying in dead tauntaun innards, made for Star Wars artist Chris Trevas and his wife Julie.

News: Flower (Not Flour) Tortillas

From Chow's "perfect series", Chef John Sedlar demonstrates how the perfect tortilla is made.

News: Make a Rubik's Cubewich

From the blog Insanewiches, the cleverly assembled Rubik's Cubewich: "The Rubik’s Cube has confounded us for years. Maybe the sandwich version of this puzzling brain teaser will do the same. The Rubix Cubewich contains cubes of pastrami, kielbasa, pork fat, salami, and two types of cheddar."

News: This Dog is Teaching Our Japanese Brethren to Cook

"Hi, I am Francis, the host of this show Cooking With Dog," begins every episode of YouTube's favorite Japanese Cooking Show.

News: DIY Pie on a Stick

Pie lollipops. The perfect snack. Forget settling on one slice, with the pie pop you can sample multiple flavors. Luxirare posted a beautifully photographed (somewhat) tutorial on how to make your own. Premade fillings, jarred like jam, enable you to make a wide variety in one batch. Check out the amazing photographs below; click through to Luxirare a few DIY text tips.

News: World's Greatest Bento - Plastic Japanese Meal

Anna The Red is the greatest Bento artist I have come across on the web. She's so highly regarded she even did an ad for Google. Check it out: For those of you who don't know, Bento is a "single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine". When bento is arranged in an elaborate style (such as people, animals, characters, plants, etc.) it is referred to as kyaraben or charaben (a shortened version of character bento).

News: Who's Behind This Obsessively Realistic Baby Cake?

What would drive Michelle Wibowo to create such a hyper realistic baby cake? An outsider to the cake decorating world might consider the subject matter a bit odd. However, elaborate baby shower cakes are a popular fad, and Michelle's award winning baby cake is the creme of the crop.