• Support is swelling for a 27,000-square-foot food market on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. It might even come to fruition soon, since Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration has committed up to $10 million in funding. [Globe]
• There’s a sushi restaurant in Tokyo where all the chefs are female hotties, and that has some traditionalists up in arms. [WSJ]
• Paprika, duck fat, and homemade sodas are really having a moment, according to 2011 data so far. And so is once-unglamorous Filipino food. [NRN, Poor Taste]
• Okay, people, it’s probably time to stop lacing chicken feed with arsenic … [Grist]
• So it turns out Mutassim and Mohammed Gaddafi, sons of Muammar, were battling it out in Libya over a Coca-Cola plant. Speaking of Libya, the World Food Program says safe passages are needed urgently to get food to people there. [Reuters, UPI]
• Meanwhile, having seen what happened in Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere, owing partly to rising food prices, a bunch of countries are building more silos to stockpile grain. [Reuters]
• And Ben Bernanke wants you to know that whatever, y’all, just because the U.N. Food Price Index is at its highest point in two decades, it’s not the Fed’s fault! [Christian Science Monitor]
