• The best butchers in Brooklyn include Faicco’s and Canarsie Meat Market. [NYDN]
• A tech start-up in Austin, Texas has raised over $2 million to launch TabbedOut, a smartphone app that lets bar and restaurant patrons open and close tabs without having to interact with the bartender or server. [Austin Statesman]
• Over 100 inmates in Iowa jails are receiving food stamps, even though by virtue of being in prison they don’t qualify for the assistance. [Chicago Tribune]
• A long, wet summer in Korea has raised prices of Chinese cabbage from $2 to $10, skyrocketing the prices of kimchee. [BeyondBrics/FT]
• A Federal Appeals Court has overturned the state of Ohio’s ban on identifying RBGH-free milk as such; the case seems likely to go to the Supreme Court. [Atlantic]
• It turns out the most effective way to clean produce is with a vinegar rinse followed by tap water. [NYT]
• The U.K. Health Secretary has apologized to Jamie Oliver for dismissing his healthy-eating activism as “rubbish.” [Guardian UK]
