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Indian Weddings Take Heat for Food Waste; Woman Delivers Child in Hardee’s Parking Lot

• Indian weddings might just be too extravagant. They’re being blamed for “prodigious food waste.” [AP]

• A woman in Lexington, Kentucky, gave birth to a baby girl in the parking lot of a Hardee’s. The mother “said she could not believe how quickly this birth happened.” [WKYT]

• This New York Times article about the hippie-dippy vibe at Cafe Gratitude surely must confirm all the East Coast’s suspicions about us Californians. [NYT]

• China is becoming increasingly reliant on other countries for staple food such as corn and soybeans, and that reliance “is likely to add a stabilizing factor” to the country’s relationship with the U.S. [Japan Times]

• For his new show, Ludo Lefebvre takes a bite out of a slain bison’s warm heart. That’s pretty metal! [LAT]

• Former Top Chef contestant Mike Isabella is a big fan of DC’s food scene. (Probably because he just opened a restaurant there.) [WP]

• We can’t explain what an L.A. company named Bruce Foods Inc. is doing making a red enchilada sauce in the first place, but they are having to recall it in any case, due to mislabeling. [Grocery]

Indian Weddings Take Heat for Food Waste; Woman Delivers Child in Hardee’s