Sink your teeth into today's top stories from around the globe.

• Get Krafty and make your own American cheese singles at home. - America's Test Kitchen

• Are the dog days of the high-profile food critic over?. - Atlantic Wire

• Our kind of voyage: Around the world in fried chicken. - San Francisco Chronicle

• Harvard reveals its own food plate icon. (Though, we're still partial to our fried okra- and bourbon-filled version) - Boston.com

• The Chinese government is cracking down on "gutter oil," or recycled cooking oil that is passed off as unused. Sounds delish, no? - Washington Post