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Pour-Over Coffee Presents Time Conundrum; Get Used to Eating With Your Hands

• In some cultures, eating with your hands is polite and the norm, and Westerners are finally catching on (hint: don’t use your left hand). [NYT]

• File under first-world problems: New York coffee nerds love pour-over java but hate waiting five minutes for it to brew. [DNA Info]

• Yuengling, the beer of choice for the Grub Street bowling team, is now the U.S.’s largest suds-maker. [WBUR]

• Because it’s been at least a week since we’ve offered you a 2012 trend forecast, here’s USA Today’s. The crystal ball says gourmet salt, Korean food, and seaweed will all have a moment. [Your Life/USAT]

• It isn’t junk food in schools that’s making kids fat — it’s junk food at home. Does this mean the candy vending machines get to come back? [NYDN]

• Hooters wannabe Canz, which still has no liquor license, has a date to meet with notoriously tough Community Board 6. Uh, yeah: Good luck with that, gals. [DNA Info]

Pour-Over Coffee Presents Time Conundrum; Get Used to Eating With Your Hands