• Music critic Jim DeRogatis explores the liquor contracts at Lollapalooza and finds ties to Mayor Daley’s nephew and loads of underage drinking fines. [Vocalo]
• Domino’s is now offering a whole wheat lower-fat pizza for use in schools. [Dallas Observer]
• Two months after the Gulf oil spill, it’s still difficult to estimate how much it will impact the area’s seafood. [NYT]
• The United Kingdom may abolish its Food Standards Agency. [Serious Eats]
• Lisa “Hungry Girl” Lillien is one of the top names in diet marketing, partially because of her relationships with brands like General Mills and Quaker. [NYT]
• White House chef Sam Kass is now also the administration’s Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives. [Obama Foodorama]
• Groups like Omnivore and Le Fooding hope to restore France’s utter dominance in the food world. [WSJ]
• Though you won’t find them in bakeries, savory loaves called cake salé are tremendously popular among French home cooks. [NYT]