• The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine hopes to ban new fast food restaurants from opening in Chicago. [Crain’s]
• New exotic brands of soda can be used to update that old Coca-Cola cake recipe. [Trib]
• Though insects are featured in many cuisines across the world, it’s been a slow slog to get Americans to eat them. [WSJ]
• Tests at Wright County Egg, the firm at the center of the recent salmonella outbreak, showed the presence of salmonella as early as 2008. [NYT]
• The USDA is poised to crack down on the use of antibiotics by pork producers. [NYT]
• After a short, controversial hiatus, tall drinks are back on Starbucks drive-through menus. [USA Today]
• The number of hungry people decreased this year for the first time since the 1990s. [NYT]
• Rival chocolatiers Mars and Hershey are both attempting to sequence the DNA of cocoa trees. [NYT]
• Self-serve wine tanks are on the rise in France. [Dr. Vino]
• Chinese collectors’ enthusiasm for Bordeaux mean this could be the wine’s most expensive year ever. [WSJ]