• A domestic violence call in the Tenderloin last night began when a woman suggested that she and her companion have spaghetti for dinner. [Examiner]
• Learn how to avoid contracting Listeria as a pregnant woman. [Marion Nestle/Chron]
• At least one person around here is utterly unimpressed with The French Laundry. [Between Meals]
• KQED offers up a recipe for a chocolate Irish whiskey cake. [Bay Area Bites]
• The Sneaky Chef author Missy Chase Lapine is suing Jerry Seinfeld for allegedly slanderous remarks he made about her while she was suing his wife for cookbook plagiarism. [NYP]
• Some feminists are turning to ultra-locavorism, but “if a woman is not careful, it seems, chicken wire can coop her up as surely as any gilded cage.” [NYT]
• Children are increasingly turning to vegetarianism, even if their parents are meat eaters. [NYP]
• Companies are removing high fructose corn syrup from many products, including Hunt’s ketchup and Gatorade. [AdAge]
• Gastrohotels are popping up alongside some of Spain’s top restaurants. [NYT]
• Jamie Oliver would like to name his next baby Thorn because “You would want to go out with someone called Thorn. You’d want to be his friend. When he gets his first date it’ll be like, ‘show us your thorn, Thorn’.” [STV]
