• Given the rising popularity of tiki drinks, can a revival of 70s style fern bars be far behind? [WP]
• Kauffman got nominated for some award. [SFoodie]
• Whole Foods employs a full-time Bay Area food scout to recruit and lend money to local vendors. [WSJ]
• The Cooking Channel aims to be a hipper version of the Food Network. [USA Today]
• Breaking: if you only ate what is advertised on TV, your diet would not be very healthy. [Time]
• Sailors used it for cooking, they cook langoustines in it at Noma in Copenhagen, and now this guy in Scotland has started bottling seawater as an ingredient. [Seafood Source]
• Iron Chef Michael Symon promised LeBron James that if James stays in Cleveland, Symon will come over and cook for him once a month. [Facebook via Huffington Post]
• Hawaii now bans shark fins. [Huffington Post]
• After a fifteen year hiatus, Walgreen’s is selling beer and wine again. [WSJ]
• The number of Americans receiving food stamps surpassed 40 million in March, nearing a 26 year high. [NYP]
