• The Bay Area has become a hub of the national tequila trade. [Chron]
• A sexual assault was reported last night behind the Beach Chalet restaurant. [KCBS]
• An Australian cookbook has to be reprinted after a type-o refers to “freshly ground black people.” [NY Daily News]
• Can technology help bring local produce closer into reach? [SF Weekly]
• VH1’s new slate of reality programming includes Beso: Waiting on Fame, a program about Eva Longoria-Parker and Todd English’s L.A. restaurant. [Broadcasting & Cable]
• Cupcake mania has hit Paris with several bakeries opening over the past few years. [The Moment/NYT]
• Jamie Oliver plans to spend millions of his own money to improve British primary school meals. [BBC]
• Craft beer currently represents seven percent of American beer sales and that number is steadily rising. [WSJ]
• Penguin has given Ruth Reichl’s Not Becoming My Mother the “softer” title For You, Mom. Finally in the book’s paperback edition. [Chapter & Verse/Christian Science Monitor]
