Friday for the Foodies: Inaugural Posting

• Eric Ripert of Le Bernadin was inducted Into the Legion d’Honneur (via The Feedbag)
  

• Fork This let us know about the Chowder slam taking place this Saturday at Jimmy’s 43 as a fundraiser for the New Amsterdam Market. ($20)

• Slashfood brought us the story of Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton, one of the last “real” moonshiners out there who took his own life rather than go to prison.  According to the post, he even wrote a book, Me and My Likker.

• Grub Street brought us the news that Trump, Cipriani, Meyer May Go After Tavern on the Green Space.

Top 5 foodie things I learned from Twitter today:

• LATimesfood – Oh, no! The Kogi Korean BBQ taco truck gets cited in Beverly Hills: Talk about down and out in Beverly Hills: http://tr.im/hzYZ

• nytimesfood(Diner’s Journal) – Restaurant trends. http://tinyurl.com/c9j6eu

• gourmet – Whoopie Pie Migration: New York Times says Whoopie Pies are migrating across the country. http://tr.im/hzP5

• pete_wells – White House garden will be organic. First family says yes to arugula, no to beets: http://tinyurl.com/cuvrbb

• ZagatBuzz – The James Beard Awards will be tweeted – http://is.gd/o5ly