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No More High Tea at the Ritz; Spanish Soccer Star Bets His Fortune on a Winery

• You can no longer have high tea at the Ritz. [Tablehopper]

• At places like RN74 and others, sommeliers are increasingly taking surreptitious tastes of wine before pouring, in order to catch bad bottles. [NYT]

• A profile on Longmeadow Ranch and Farmstead and its owner Ted Hall, whose mom was “an organic-farming pioneer in the 1940s.” [Food & Wine]

• In New York, critics aren’t afraid to give zero-star reviews. [Grub Street NY]

• Spanish World Cup team member Andres Iniesta is betting nine million euros of his soccer fortune on vineyards and a winery near his hometown in the Castilla La Mancha region. [Bloomberg]

• Fast food is the most-advertised food during children’s television programming; in 2003 it was cereal. [LAT]

• Despite his Copenhagen restaurant being named the best in the world, Noma’s Rene Redzepi does much of his ingredient foraging himself. [NYT]

• The World Health Organization has set global limitations on the amount of melamine allowed in infant formula and other foods. [AP]

• The spread of Western-style fast food restaurants to Asia coincides with a massive uptick in diabetes cases in the region. [AFP]

No More High Tea at the Ritz; Spanish Soccer Star Bets His Fortune on a Winery