Esquire: What would Steve Jobs eat? — Jeff Gordinier

The 86 List: A new hub for food-job-seekers in New York City has just launched. Note to college seniors: skilled oyster shuckers are in demand.

— Julia Moskin

Men’s Health: Five flu-fighting foods: papaya (vitamins C and E), cranberries (natural probiotics), apples (antioxidants), grapefruit (cholesterol-lowering limonoids) and bananas (B6, magnesium). — Glenn Collins

The Guardian: Attention charcuterists, “although black or brown moulds usually spell disaster, as does anything slimy and white,” the right kind of mould works wonders. — Nick Fox

Tasting Table: First comes a domestic surge in hard cider. Next up, new places that specialize in serving it. — Jeff Gordinier

The Ridiculous Food Society of Upstate New York: This blogger produces homemade bacon and pickles, is obsessed (in a friendly way) with fast food, and also has expertise in Albany-area specialties like riggies, Utica greens, and Genesee Cream Ale. — Julia Moskin

The Guardian: This weekend’s challenge: make chestnut liqueur!

— Jeff Gordinier

National Geographic: New autopsy research shows that the famous Iceman — the 5,300-year-old Neolithic mummy found on an Italian alp — had consumed a large meal of alpine ibex (wild goat) and wheat bread before he was mysteriously slain by an arrow. — Glenn Collins

The Atlantic: The makers of Necco candy wafers give up their effort to use natural flavors and colors after sales drop 35 percent. So people didn’t mind how nasty they tasted as long as they were brightly colored? — Nick Fox

Boston Phoenix: You learn some weird stuff when you decide to become a beekeeper. — Jeff Gordinier

Poetry Foundation: A saucy Grace Cavalieri poem about pizza.

— Jeff Gordinier