Mediavore: Ploughing Into King Fung Garden

• A police cruiser drove into the front window of King Fung Garden II while in the process of chasing a suspicious vehicle. [Globe]

• Hot on the heels of Massachusetts requiring calorie posting in chain restaurants, a bill has been introduced in the U.S. Congress that would require the same of those restaurants on a national scale. [UPI]

• Processed food manufacturers are trying to protect themselves against food safety suits by putting the burden on the consumer to heat foods to a temperature that will kill bacteria and other nasty guys. [NYT]

• Frank Bruni, restaurant critic at the New York Times, is ending his five-year tenure with the newspaper. [Grub Street]

• Oprah is being blamed for the exponential increase in the wholesale price of antioxidant-rich acai berries. They were formerly a staple of the diet of the Amazonian poor, and now are too expensive for most to afford them. [Bloomberg]

Mediavore: Ploughing Into King Fung Garden