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How to Keep From Getting Roofied; How Restaurants Became the Center of the Civil Rights Movement

• If you don’t want to end up like this young woman who woke up in the men’s room of a downtown S.F. bar, you may want to consider carrying one of the various Rohypnol detection devices now on the market. [SFoodie]

• Local food celeb Joanne Weir, who’s hard at work preparing to open her new restaurant Copita in Sausalito, saw her new TV show Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence premiere over the weekend. [KQED, Eater]

• We mentioned it earlier, but Dine About Town kicked off last week, and Oakland Restaurant Week kicks off this Friday, so get your slightly discounted prix fixes while you can. [Chron]

• Today on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let’s revisit the ways restaurants were pretty much at the center of the Civil Rights Movement [Salt/NPR]

• Burger King is testing delivery service, so prepare for Americans to get even lazier and fatter. [NRN]

• Get your freekah on with this primer to ancient grains. [WSJ]

• Ballers in China are buying tons of cognac, causing sales to spike. [Reuters via HuffPo]

• Move over, Riesling, Moscato is set to be in everyone’s glasses this year. [WSJ]

How to Keep From Getting Roofied; How Restaurants Became the Center of the Civil