• VH1’s new slate of reality programming includes Beso: Waiting on Fame, a program about Eva Longoria-Parker and Todd English’s LA restaurant. [Broadcasting & Cable]
• Rocco Dispirito will appear in an upcoming, food-related episode of the show Castle. [UPI]
• Penguin has given Ruth Reichl’s Not Becoming My Mother the “softer” title For You, Mom. Finally in the book’s paperback edition. [Chapter & Verse/Christian Science Monitor]
• A judge rejected Carly Simon’s suit against Starbucks for leaving the music business before releasing her CD. [ABC]
• Jamie Oliver plans to spend millions of his own money to improve British primary school meals. [BBC]
• Craft beer currently represents seven percent of American beer sales and that number is steadily rising. [WSJ]
• BLT Restaurant Group launched a food truck in New York last week called Go Burger. [Nation’s Restaurant News]
• Cupcake mania has hit Paris with several bakeries opening over the past few years.. [The Moment/NYT]
• Tomorrow Calbi Fusion Tacos and Burritos starts a national expansion, with the opening of a store in Austin, Texas. [Business Wire]
