• A meat supplier in Fresno is recalling hundreds of thousands of pounds of ground-beef following a salmonella outbreak. [LAT]
• Kogi’s founder Mark Manguera is in talks with RoadStove to start a consulting business for street food trucks. [LAT]
• A controversial political ad compares Sasha and Malia’s private school lunches to those in public school. [FOX]
• Environmentalists are unhappy about a proposed 8,320-acre solar farm in the Mojave Desert. [Green Inc/NYT]
• The FDA tells consumers to avoid Clarcon hand-sanitizers because they contain harmful bacteria. [LAT]
• Salvage grocers selling dented cans and “past-prime meat” are experiencing a boom. [Google/AP]
• A Boulder-based food research organization calls the British study that dismissed health benefits in organic foods “incomplete and flawed.” [BizJournals]
• Padma Lakshmi’s shocking secret for staying thin: she works out. [NYT]
• Top Chef has created a branded wine called Quickfire. [Yumsugar]
• A judge has barred the ex-wife and daughter of a Gucci heir from selling Gucci-branded gelato. [NYP]