• Stop the coffee presses: Starbucks has a new blonde roast for everyone complaining that its coffee is too dark. [NRN]
• Like French fries? Better thank all those convicts who are picking your potatoes. [WSJ]
• There’s a new Sesame Street cookbook and guess what it’s called? B Is for Baking. Aw …. [NJ.com]
• Domestic olive oil from California has gotten so good it’s challenging the supremacy of European products. [NYT]
• Silver Lake’s new Naya restaurant fuses Indian recipes with Western flavor. [Examiner]
• Occupy Wall Street protesters are targeting the “One Percent” where they actually hang out: fancy restaurants, including New York’s Gramercy Tavern and Union Square Cafe. [Crain’s]
• Beware of aggressive panhandling potheads at L.A.’s fast food restaurants, warns a slightly paranoid Mercury News. [MN]