Bird’s Eye: Quora has three silly questions for every one of interest, but those hits are a joy. Some fine suggestions in this discussion. Two lovely art pieces, courtesy of The Twisted Sifter, and a happy end to the wawful nightmare of the missing maple syrup.

* Cooking: If there were 10 commandments in cooking what would they be?  Quora

* 12 Artful Displays of Vegetables Twisted Sifter

* A Chef’s Portrait Made from Food Twisted Sifter

Mexican creative studio Golpeavia was hired to make a portrait of world-famous chef René Redzepi for the cover of ClasePremier magazine. Rather than simply do an illustrated portrait, the agency decided to pay homage to the chef by creating his portrait out of food (and some table settings) and then photographing the result.

* Canada’s Long National Nightmare Is Over Montreal Gazette

If you like your maple syrup hot, there’s tons of it out there….Contents of 16,000 45-gallon barrels, siphoned off and reported stolen from a central distribution centre in August, have been found. The Sûreté du Québec and the RCMP obtained search warrants last week and raided a facility in New Brunswick.