• Frommer’s just released its list of the top ten airport restaurants, including L.A.X.’s Encounter, Deep Blue Sushi at New York’s JFK, and Legal Sea Foods at Boston’s Logan International. We don’t know of anyone choosing their flights based on airport food, but it could happen. [USAT]
• Rachel Ray has signed a partnership deal with Demand Media, with plans to produce original programming for an eHow food channel. [SoCal Tech]
• This is pretty disgusting: A Pennsylvania pizza shop owner is accused of “food terrorism by mice” after he allegedly released the vermin into two competing pie parlors. [NYDN]
• $42,000 is spent on champagne for The Oscars, while Wolfgang Puck and company spent $25,000 on truffles. [Business Insider]
• SBE is putting a version of its Hyde lounge in the Bellagio. Vegas and SBE somehow feel like a perfect fit. [LVZRJ]
• Sprouts Farmers Market is merging with Henry’s, meaning over 30 O.C. locations of the latter will become Sprouts. [OC Register]
• As if there weren’t enough bad news about global food security these days, there’s now a rapidly spreading “wheat rust” disease affecting crops in eastern and southern Africa. [ABC News AU]
• Yo, yo, everyone’s bidding for a 50 percent stake in Yoplait, including General Mills and Nestle. [RTT News]
