Food for thought

The surfing gourmet: A new website for serious foodies, Gilttaste.com, was launched a couple of weeks ago, offering deals on fancy kitchen gadgets and high-end produce, recipes from top chefs and video of gourmet preparations.

Already it’s logged 350,000 page views, all of which were by people sitting in front of their computers with an open jar of crunchy peanut butter and a spoon.

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Playing it safe: Even though Sony’s PlayStation 3 network was hacked, bringing down its gaming network and exposing email address and other information of gameplayers, Sony officials were adamant that online networks will continue to be vital to game playing.

“There’s no turning back,” said one executive, who then picked up his folded newspaper and a pen to play Sudoku without fear of being hacked.

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I scream, you scream: A public health official has told an ice cream shop in Columbia, Mo., to discontinue its sales of chocolate-covered cicada ice cream, made with the insects that emerge from underground burrows every 17 years. The health agency’s food code “doesn’t directly address cicadas,” an official said.

We’re guessing the food code also doesn’t say anything about deep-fried Twinkies, which like the cicadas, would still fresh even after 17 years in the ground.