Stephan's Friday Picks

• Tweaking vegetables' genes could make them tastier - and you'll get to try them soon (Scientific American)
• Vitamin Shoppe owner taken private in $2.6 billion deal (Reuters)
• Work-life balance is their second priority. Work is their first (WSJ)
• Friends once 'escaped' her cooking. Now she's one of the world's best chefs (NYT)
• From the archives (2003): At 74, Jimmy Pattison focuses on the long term (Globe and Mail)