5. Just when we think we’ve wearied of RuthBourdain, the anonymous tweeter who mashes Ruth Reichl’s haiku-ish twitter style with Anthony Bourdain’s brash writing voice, “she” offers something wonderful in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.

You haven’t truly celebrated St. Patrick’s Day until you’ve sous-vided a whole leprechaun. Delish.

4. It’s not often that you experience queasiness and culinary inspiration at the same time. But how else to feel after reading this tweet from Seatown scribe Sarah Dickerman?

there’s a certain grim satisfaction in cleaning the fridge before a trip—how to combine pumpkin hotdogs apples and cottage cheese?

3. Coming in at number three, an excellent question from local writer Rebekah Denn to world-famous Seattle lawyer Bill Marler, who specializes in food-borne illnesses.

@bmarler Curious, after reading Poisoned, whether you would eat at a Jack in the Box now.

2. Marler’s response:

@Rebekahdenn IF I ate fast food I would.

1. Local food writer Leslie Kelly offers our sentiments exactly on the James Beard Foundation’s choice for its 2011 Humanitarian of the Year Award: FareStart.

Congrats to Farestart for the James Beard Foundation’s Humanitarian of the Year Award!! So well-deserved!

Full disclosure on that one: Seattle Met is a Farestart media partner. Happy weekend.