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

• With more pressing national matters like the debt and job crisis, is food writing still relevant? - Amateur Gourmet

• Food activists should take a page from the "Occupy Wall Street" book. - Mother Jones

• This $34,000 dessert - the world's most expensive - proves that all that glitters certainly isn't gold. - Gawker

• Got something brewing at home? Hop over these common mistakes. - Food & Wine

• A British expat gets lost in translation when it comes to American cooking. - NPR