• A brief look at Jose Pistola’s Casey Parker, Philly mag’s pick for best bartender. [The Restaurant Club]
• Get ready for farm-to-bar cocktails as more bartenders start growing their own ingredients. [Gourmet]
• Some major food companies are charging that the U.S. could “virtually run out of sugar” if import restrictions aren’t eased. [WSJ]
• The increase in home cooking has lead to a surge of popularity for cooking classes. [WSJ]
• After much work on reduction, lead levels in the White House garden are now astonishingly low. [NYT]
• Food companies like Tyson and General Mills are concerned that they may end up paying a lion’s share of the cost for climate-change legislation. [WSJ]
