• A Board of Supervisors’ committee is meeting this morning to discuss new street food regulations. [Examiner]
• Buy discounted spatulas, kitchen timers, and such at Cooks Boulevard’s going-out-of-business sale. [Noe Valley SF]
• A benefit production of The Vagina Monologues in Livermore will feature “V-tinis” created by local bartenders especially for the event. We won’t ask what’s in them. [Contra Costa Times]
• Things you never realized you wanted: nacho-cheese-flavored lip balm. [Archie McPhee via Laughing Squid]
• West Coast morels are already available, which is a sure sign of the coming spring. [Mouthing Off/F&W;]
• Jamba Juice is now offering salads and novelty ice cream bars. [NRN]
• Nobu Matsuhisa contemplated suicide after his Alaska restaurant burned down early in his career. [Eater]
• In-school sales of full-calorie soda drinks have dropped 95 percent since 2004. [WSJ]
• Starbucks is currently testing a 31 ounce “trenta” size in Phoenix and Tampa. [Boston Globe]
• Food Network chef Marcela Valladolid has spent the past twelve years working with managers, agents, and publicists to try to become a household name. [WSJ]