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Dining News Elsewhere: Nutritional Information, Unreasonable Pricing

  • – Unsurprisingly, fast food restaurants would prefer not to have nutritional information on their menus – so they are suing. [SF Gov]
  • – Where have the reasonably priced restaurants gone? [Between Meals]
  • – Yountsville is getting another top notch eatery, an Italian from a Thomas Keller vet. [Napa Valley Address]
  • – As more cases arise in the recent salmonella outbreak, jalapeño peppers are replacing tomatoes as the prime suspects. [Chronicle]
  • – Drinking alfresco by the Bay. [Eater SF]
  • – To the dismay of some, many restaurants sport ergonomically incorrect seats. [Between Meals]
  • – A new kind of drinkable chocolate. Really. [Food Gal]
  • – Oddly, edamame has just now made it into the Merriam-Webster dictionary. [Serious Eats]
  • – Remember that "miracle fruit" a few months ago? The one that makes sour taste sweet? They've seen a big jump in price. [Grub Street]
  • – How Starbucks lost its groove. [Chicago Tribune]
  • – Pringles are not potato chips in the eyes of the law. [WSJ]
  • – Nope, it isn't your imagination. The amount of food in the packages you buy at grocery stores is shrinking. [Time]
  • – Can a book teach you knife skills? [Slate]
  • – Related: Want to make your own bacon? [Salon]
  • – Local devourer Joey Chestnut beat out Kobayashi again on Friday in what was arguably the most dramatic competitive eating challenge to date. [Merc]
  • – The French, and the rest of the world, are facing increases in the price of snails because Eastern Europeans are no longer interested in harvesting them. [BBC]
  • – Mississippi is the most obese state in the nation. [Strange Maps]
  • – Martian asparagus, anyone? [Grinder]
  • – A great scheme to lower sodium intake. [Menupages]
Published Wednesday, July 09, 2008 2:03 PM by BuzzEditor

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