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Blarney Rock Pub Evacuated When Wall Cracks; Cookbook Features A-Rod’s Kale Recipe

• So maybe it’s been a rough day and you’re sitting in the Blarney Rock Pub drinking your third Guinness when suddenly the wall cracks. Yeah … that actually happened yesterday. [DNA Info]

• The cookbook Diamond Dishes, coming out tomorrow, features recipes for A-Rod’s kale chips and other favorite manly dishes from baseball stars. [NYP]

• Gluten-free diets are having a moment, but at least one chef admitted to lying to abstinent diners and serving them full-gluten starches. [Foodista]

• In Italy, delivery services exist to help mamas send homemade food to their grown children living far away. Could they send us some, too, please? [WSJ]

• More than half of all Olive Garden restaurants will get a “Tuscan farmhouse” makeover. Guess OG execs have been doing a little travel-memoir reading! [NRN]

• A group of well-behaved Rikers Island prisoners bakes bread daily to provide the 36,000 loaves the prison population eats each week. [Yahoo News Canada]

Blarney Rock Pub Evacuated When Wall Cracks; Cookbook Features A-Rod’s