• Parx Casino’s latest expansion plans will bring new restaurants, more slots and table games, and even more temptation for gamblers to leave their kids in locked in cars out in the parking lots. [KYW Newsradio]
• The Philadelphia police officer accused of stealing cash from a bar’s safe in the city’s Northwood section while on duty last summer has been convicted of the crime. [Philly.com]
• Some of the most fascinating parts of a biography about Steve Jobs involve his eating habits, which alternated between fasting or subsisting on fruit smoothies much of the time. Another of his favorite foods: apples. [Shelf Life/EW]
• New research suggests that people who crave sweet foods tend to be sweeter in disposition. Unfortunately, it doesn’t suggest that slipping your bitchy co-worker a cookie would make her any nicer. [AOL UK]
• Behold some foodie vacations around the world, from Blackberry Farm to India. [WSJ]
• Today is Food Day around the country, with events that celebrate and encourage healthy and sustainable food. [CSPI]
