• An Arizona teacher has been suspended after taking 40 students to Hooters for lunch while on a field trip. [USA Today]
• Scientists studying champagne say that every one of a bottle’s twenty million bubbles alters the beverage’s taste and smell. [WSJ]
• Lari Robling offers suggestions for quick bites in Center City while holiday shopping. [Daily News]
• Joe Sixpack details the beauty of spiced beers. [Daily News]
• Maine’s attorney general is investigating allegations of price-fixing among some of the state’s lobstermen. [NYP]
• Working at German corporation BASF SE has one notable perk: access to the company’s 108 year-old wine cellar. [WSJ]