• It’s citrus season and local preserves-maker June Taylor and her worker bees at The Still Room in Berkeley are madly making Meyer lemon marmalades and such. [Berkeleyside]
• In effort to seem more hip and current, Safeway is launching a cooking competition hosted by Food Network chef Alex Guarnaschelli, and they’re looking for home cooks to come up with an “original, delicious, and nutritious skillet meal.” [SF Business Times]
• Here’s Oscar nominee Demian Bichir’s guacamole recipe. [AP]
• Here’s a fascinating article about what astronauts crave in space. They lose their sense of smell and get stuffy heads from fluid retention, so hot sauce is a big one. [NPR]
• A huge, 27-pound, 40-inch lobster — about the size of a three-year-old child and the largest ever recorded in Maine — was caught by a shrimp dragger the other day and release back into the wild. [MSNBC]
• Ben & Jerry’s has introduced a line of Greek frozen yogurt, and HuffPo has a taste-test verdict: tangy. [HuffPo]
• Taco Bell has a new slogan: “Live Mas.” No talking animals have yet but signed to promote it, but we’re crossing our fingers. [NRN]
• With Pepsi Next, the company is trying again where Coke failed with C2 — to entice consumers with a can that has half the calories of regular soda. [USAT]
