• Two players for England’s soccer team blew 8,000 pounds over twelve hours at XIV, Sky Bar, and Guys and Dolls. [The Sun]
• White House chef Sam Kass is now also the administration’s Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives. [Obama Foodorama]
• The Chow innovation tour had its minds blown at Jose Andres’ The Bazaar. [Chow]
• A new culinary website called Toque has launched with former L.A. Times writer Elina Shatkin representing the West Coast. [PR Newswire]
• 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]
• Groups like Omnivore and Le Fooding hope to restore France’s utter dominance in the food world. [WSJ]
• Domino’s is now offering a whole wheat lower-fat pizza for use in schools. [Dallas Observer]
• Though you won’t find them in bakeries, savory loaves called cake salé are tremendously popular among French home cooks. [NYT]