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Dining News Elsewhere: Cook County Taxes, Bayless' New Baby

  • – The recent uptick in Cook County taxes may be a boon for service workers. [Tribune]
  • – The celebrity chef scene is getting out of hand. [Hungry]
  • Rick Bayless has plans for a quick-serve Mexican sandwich shop around the corner from Frontera Grill and Topolobampo. [Dish]
  • – With prices on the rise, more and more chefs are growing their own supplies. [Sun-Times]
  • – Legal again, absinthe is popping up around town. [Reader]
  • – Starbucks is closing 600 shops this year, but which ones? Though the company won't say, this map is tracking them. [Seattle Times, via Eater]
  • – Kids do, in fact, like their vegetables. Just not the ones you've been buying. [Tribune]
  • New York Magazine looks to be buying up Menupages. [Paid Content]
  • – Is the world's supply of chocolate in danger? [Menupages]
  • – Related: A new kind of drinkable chocolate. [Food Gal]
  • – Though it sounds like molecular gastronomy, fried milk has been around for ages. [NYT]
  • – Oddly, edamame has just now made it into the Merriam-Webster dictionary. [Serious Eats]
  • – For July 11th, 7-Eleven is giving out free slurpees in select locations. Bur first, master the art of the slurpee pour. [Serious Eats]
  • – Delivering laced cookies to police departments is probably a good way to get in some hot water. [Tribune]
  • – Graydon Carter is trying to move the famous Vanity Fair Oscar party in LA out of Craft. [Page Six]
  • – Number 1,201 in the line of succession for the British crown is... a chef in Brooklyn. [Daily Mail]
  • – Some snack foods names are a little risque out of context. [Serious Eats]
  • – A wrong order at Ruby Tuesday's may have killed a man. [Consumerist]
Published Friday, July 11, 2008 12:34 PM by BuzzEditor

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