• As restaurants struggle for customers, Wurstkuche is experiencing record demand, evidenced by diverse lines that wrap around the corner. [A.P.M. Marketplace]
• Teens in South L.A. and Baldwin Park are contributing to a social networking website called “We’re Fed Up,” which shares information about healthy eating and the threat of teen obesity. [L.A. Times]
• MOCA is replacing Patina Group, its food vendor for fifteen years, with a new location of Lemonade. [LAT/Culture Monster]
• A massive new study in California found that adults who drink one or more sodas a day are 27 percent more likely to be overweight. [Sacramento Bee]
• Senate bill that would ban liquor sales that are not made with a live person will be delayed until 2010. [L.A.T.]
• Despite her acclaim in the United States, Parisians are not too familiar with Julia Child’s cookbooks, or even her name. [NYT]
• Michelin’s new ad campaign focuses on its “famously anonymous” reviewers. [NYT]
• A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for a tax of a penny per ounce on soft drinks. [WSJ]
• Dairy farmers are calling for federal antitrust operators to investigate their field. [WSJ]
