• Rick Nichols is hot on the trail of a mechanical cheese machine in Vermont. [Inquirer]
• Italian banks may soon start accepting prosciutto and pricey wine as loan collateral for food producers. [Guardian]
• Open Chefame, wherein you pay $35 for an amateur to cook a meal for you in a restaurant, gets profiled. [Inquirer]
• A bar fight turned into a bar stabbing outside of Lucy’s in Old City. [kyw1060]
• Faced with falling demand for their product, some tobacco farmers are turning to winemaking. [WSJ]
• The use of food stamps has been linked to weight gain, particularly among women. [NYDN]
