• The meatpacking district is not just the kind of meat market that offers bottle service. There are actually still nine meatpacking businesses left in the hood, down from 200 several decades ago. [NYDN]
• One very brave school employee in the Midwest ate school lunch for a year and blogged about it. Click through with caution if you’re easily nauseated. [CNN]
• Remember how we told you about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s crazy French wine collection? Well, he just sold a big chunk of it at Sotheby’s for $5.6 million. [SceneAsia/WSJ]
• A top U.K. scientist argues that genetically modified crops will be one of the key factors in ensuring we all have enough to eat going forward. [Guardian UK]
• Restaurants like Maialino in New York and the Kona Grill chain are offering nontraditional Super Bowl food like a whole-roasted pig, or “super roll” sushi platters. [NRN]
• The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged countries to limit children’s exposure to ads for high-calorie, low-nutrition junk food, citing these foods as a major contributor to childhood obesity. [Press TV]
