Weekly Top 6 for Traveling Foodies

1. Check out Epicurious' article on America's Top 50 Restaurants which includes one of my favorites, Babbo here in NYC.

2. Plan for October: There is the Boston Vegetarian Festival on Oct 21, Alba's (Italy) White Truffle Festival, the Exmoor Food Festival October 7-15, and many others listed at cookingvillage.com and smartertravel.com.

3. If you're a business travel, check out Taking a client out to dinner? Here are some tips on "wining"

4. Joel Robuchon Debuts New Restaurant in New York at the Four Seasons Hotel

5. SF Gate reports on Enjoying Almonds at their Peak and on an interesting new restaurant, Barracuda mixes Japanese, Peruvian.

6. Pick up some new cookbooks including Zingerman's Guide to Good  Eating from the deli and restaurant in Ann Arbor and  Moosewood Restaurant  Simple Suppers from the famous vegetarian restaurant in Ithaca, NY.