For you extended attention span:
•While we've been eating flowers for centuries, there's been a recent increase in the amount of coverage surrounding edible buds. Why throw a bouquet of marigolds in a vase, when you can make marigold-flavored cucumbers instead? [The Atlantic]
•Interested in celebrating National Ice Cream Day? No? Well, how about using it as an excuse to look at a collection of gratuitous ice cream food-porn shots? We could have used, say, about 45 more photos, but we'll take what we can get. [Serious Eats]
•And finally, ever wonder what a bottle of Champagne produced over 200 years ago tastes like? Divers in the Baltic seabed unearthed thirty bottles of the oldest drinkable Champagne ever discovered. Watch as they pop the old bub. [BBC]
