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New York Hopes Soda Ban Spreads Nationwide; Finding Food for a Dollar

• Mayor Bloomberg is “confident” that New York’s ban on using food stamps to buy soda will eventually be adopted at the federal level. [WSJ]

• After repeated protests from PETA, a Sacramento restaurant has stopped serving a dish of live, “dancing” shrimp. [MSNBC]

• Artist Jonathan Blaustein set out to see how many foods he could photograph that cost just one dollar. [Lens/NYT]

• In his role as U.S. entrant in the Bocuse D’Or, Eleven Madison Park sous-chef James Kent trains as hard as some athletes. [AFP]

• Two chefs — Chicago’s Ina PIckney and South Carolina’s Nathalee Dupree — have announced their candidacy for the U.S. Senate recently. [Speakeasy/WSJ]

• A Turkish restaurant employs a full-time anthropologist to travel the globe and send back rare and disappearing ingredients. [SMH]

• Alinea chef Grant Achatz will lecture at Harvard next week. [Eater Chicago]

• British oysters are back in season this month; they’re one of the most in-demand ingredients on the market right now. [WSJ]

New York Hopes Soda Ban Spreads Nationwide; Finding Food for a Dollar