• New York food czar Ben Thomases quietly left the position last month for a job in the nonprofit sector. [NYT]
• 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 adviser for healthy food initiatives. [Obama Foodorama]
• The United Kingdom may abolish its Food Standards Agency. [Serious Eats]
• Groups like Omnivore and Le Fooding hope to restore France’s food-world dominance. [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]
