Greatest Hits And What You Missed: Turkeys, Vienna Sausages and Gingerbread

"Vessel announced its final day at 1312 5th Avenue will be this Thursday, December 23. The cocktail lounge will open in a new location next spring or summer - details have yet to be announced."

Just the kind of Morning Food News that gets your day started off right.

"With the photos, I chose those that I thought were most lovely or most fully captured the essence of what was being shot--be it a beautiful plate of potatoes or a server at the end of a long night. But with the top 10 posts of the year, I went straight to you, the readers--running back through 360-some days worth of bloggity nonsense to find those which were most heavily read by the public.

These were the pieces that drew the most eyeballs, got passed around the most, were the most read. In that, they represent the collective, click-happy subconscious of the reading public. They must, simply by dint of being the most read, be those things that you were most interested in throughout the year. And what your choices tell me is that you folks are just weird."

From this week's list of the "10 Top Voracious Posts of 2010," parts 1 and 2.