• Emeril Lagasse will host an hour-long talk show on the ION network — the channel’s first foray into original non-scripted programming. [Eater]
• Long Beach’s Cafe Creama might have to close due to decreased business over the last year. [Press Telegram]
• Ten German teens were rushed to the hospital after drinking hot sauce 200 times spicier than Tabasco. [MSNBC]
• A new study suggests that a national program to reduce dietary salt could cut as much as $24 billion from the national health care budget. [WSJ]
• New concerns are being voiced over Hungtington Meat Packing Inc.’s beef recall, with fears that beef shipped over two years ago had similar contamination and could still be out there. [Lawyers and Settlements]
• VMG Global plead guilty to selling dietary supplements laced with steroids. [N.Y. Times]
• U.S. beer sales fell 2.2 percent last year, the biggest slip since the 1950s. [WSJ]
• Starbucks’ first quarter sales rose, thanks in part to the introduction of Via instant coffee. [WSJ]
• Weight Watchers won a temporary restraining order banning Jenny Craig from running ads claiming that the latter’s participants lost more weight. [NYP]
• A two-year-old chef named Archie is a viral video sensation in the United Kingdom. [London Evening Standard]
