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A&P Fights For its Life; Feastival Brings Much Needed Cash Flow to Live Arts & Philly Fringe

• Tonight’s Feastival benefit for Philly’s Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe expects to bring in more than $200,000. [Inquirer]

• With earnings low and dept rising, A&P; supermarkets struggle to stay afloat. [Inquirer]

• Rival chocolatiers Mars and Hershey are both attempting to sequence the DNA of cocoa trees. [NYT]

• 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]

• 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]

A&P Fights For its Life; Feastival Brings Much Needed Cash Flow to Live Arts &