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Michelle Obama to Pen Book on White House Garden; Coffee Hits Broadway

• First Lady Michelle Obama will pen a book about the White House garden and eating locally. Our suggested title: The Audacity of Eggplant. [WP via AP]

• Guy Fieri and Jeff Bridges are among the celebrities involved in promoting “No Kid Hungry” to promote federally-funded meal programs for the youth. [Mercury News]

Coffee the Musical is coming soon to Broadway. We hear if you buy nine tickets you’ll get the tenth free. [Diner’s Journal/NYT]

• At least you enjoyed all that cheap food while you could, United States, it might soon be a thing of the past. [LAT]

• Are food bloggers obsessed with kale chips? [LAT]

• Goya donated a million pounds of food across the country to food pantries. [My Fox LA]

• The PCH was shut down yesterday when a car leaving Geoffrey’s Malibu turned into the path of a motorcycle, leaving one dead. [LAT]

• Pepsi might have plant-based bottles and old-timey cans, but data shows Diet Coke surpassed Pepsi sales in 2010, meaning Coke now holds the top two national soft-drink two spots. [WSJ]

• We’ve been warning you about food prices going up, but according to this, they “skyrocketed” in February by 3.9 percent, the biggest one-month increase since 1974. [WBIR]

• Meet a pair of overly adorable 9-year-old chefs. Sheesh, if these toques get any younger, soon they’ll be cooking in the womb! [ABC News]

Michelle Obama to Pen Book on White House Garden; Coffee Hits Broadway