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

• Wherein a Florida store's ice cream cone mascot is mistaken for a Klansman. - Gawker

• Finless shark fin soup has all the delectable traditional flavors without the sour aftertaste of controversy. - LA Weekly

• As more and more classic cookbooks like Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" go digital, are their print counterparts bound for extinction? - Chicago Tribune

• Climate change isn't just a climatic concern, it's threatening our food supply as well. - The Atlantic

• Pancake pillows! Pancake pillows! Pancake pillows! - BoingBoing

• David and Denise Lloyd of Maple Downs Farm in upstate New York share their heartbreaking story of the devastation caused by Hurricane Irene. - food.curated