The RP’s Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Food

Is talking politics over Thanksgiving dinner a no-no?  With some ground rules, it may not be. [CNN]

Here’s an open letter written by health care professionals to the CEO of McDonald’s with a simple plea: stop marketing junk food to kids. [www.lettertomcdonalds.org]

For a visual potluck of culinary inventions with links to recipes, check out this site. [TasteSpotting]

You may know that BPA exposure is linked to plastics, but a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that canned foods are another source of exposure. [NPR]