• Chuck Schumer’s favorite sandwich is the “Schumwich,” filled with roast beef, banana peppers, pickled jalapeños, extra onions, extra tomatoes, extra pickles, mayonnaise, and mustard — and he’s very finnicky about making sure his aides get it right. [NYP via Daily Intel]
• Hummus manufacturer Sabra will close its Queens headquarters and move to Virginia. [Crain’s]
• New Real Housewives of New York star Sonja Morgan already has a cookbook of quick toaster-oven recipes in development. [NYP]
• The world’s most expensive coffee beans come from the droppings of the civet cat. [NYT]
• The Iceland volcano is preventing cargo from leaving Africa, and Kenyan farmers are dumping vegetables and losing $1.3 million. [Guardian UK]
• Wine dinners are the new boys’ nights out. [NYP]
• Penguin Group Australia had to reprint its Pasta Bible after finding that a recipe for tagliatelle called for “salt and freshly ground black people.” [NYDN]
• Backyard chickens continue to rise in popularity. [NYDN]
