• Gender plays a much bigger behind-the-scenes role at restaurants than one would think. [NYT]
• The Chinese have lost all faith in their government’s ability to regulate food, and they expect more food scandals to come. [USA Today]
• Wolfgang Puck needs help naming his new restaurant in Dallas. The winner gets a free meal for four once a month for a year. Not a bad deal. [Dallas Morning News]
• Talk about food inflation; food prices have doubled in the past year in Cambodia. The Asian Development Bank just announced that $35 million we soon be sent to feed the poorest of the poor in Cambodia. [AP]