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California Man Arrested for Eating Cats; Gordon Ramsay Parts Ways With Montreal Restaurant

• A 35-year-old man in Kern County, whose neighbors had heard a lot of cats screaming in his house and witnessed him decapitate one in his backyard, was arrested after authorities found him preparing the animals to eat. [Mercury News]

• In case you weren’t aware, there is a real Boulette behind Boulette’s Larder. [MichelinGuideSF/Twitter]

• Obama’s visit yesterday to Great Eastern to grab lunch called attention to the fact that it is among a handful of places in the U.S. — and nine in S.F.’s Chinatown — still serving shark-fin soup. But this is kind of a non-scandal because the California law allows restaurants to sell off their stock of shark fins until July 2013. [Chron]

• Gordon Ramsay is “disappointed” that the owner of Laurier Gordon Ramsay restaurant in Montreal is going to remove Gordo’s name from the restaurant. Ramsay had served as a consultant. [Daily Mail UK]

• Quelle fromage! Bruce Palling heads to London and buys cheese with Alain Ducasse. [WSJ]

• Time to switch to fresh-squeezed: The FDA “won’t allow more fungicide in orange juice.” But why were they even considering it in the first place? [Reuters]

• Sam Sifton is talking apple pie — just the thing to brighten a winter day — in the Times. [NYT]

California Man Arrested for Eating Cats; Gordon Ramsay Parts Ways With Montreal