Food for thought

Hey, I was going to make a smoothie with that: Martha Stewart has some tips for how to give new clay pots a weathered look. One technique she suggests for a natural-looking patina is to slather the pots with plain yogurt and let them sit for at least a month.

Martha offers no suggestions on how to keep the neighborhood cats away from your pots for the month.

The lefse's a little soggy: A gas company building an underwater pipeline in the Baltic Sea has discovered a dozen shipwrecks, possibly dating between the 17th and 19th centuries.

Divers have yet to explore the wrecks, but Scandinavians are already in a bidding frenzy for any ancient shipments of lutefisk that may be aboard.

With enough wasabi, maybe: Federal charges have been filed against a high-end sushi restaurant owner in California who marine mammal activists claim was serving slices of Sei whale, an endangered species, in a $600 chef's special.

Month-old yogurt, 300-year-old lutefisk and $600 whale sushi. Nothing for us, thanks; we're fine with a cup of coffee.

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