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Apples Take Pesticide Cake; Trader Joe’s Pad Thai–gate Hits Courts

• Time to rethink an apple a day? The fruit ranks highest among common produce for pesticide contamination. [CBS News]

• A tussle over frozen veggie pad thai that rocked the aisles of an Upper West Side Trader Joe’s is set to hit courts today. Sounds like both parties involved need to do a little more yogilates. [NYP]

• The ups and downs of Louisville, Kentucky’s efforts to fight obesity resembles the efforts of somebody on a yo-yo diet. [NYT]

• Food trucks are growing up: First, they added booze; now they’re catering weddings — in Brooklyn, of course. We’re tearing up. [WSJ]

• Remember when former New York Giant Plaxico Burress intelligently took a gun to a nightclub, then shot himself in the leg? Well, now he’s out of prison and determined to regain baller status by pigging out at Prime One in South Beach. [Page Six/NYP]

• As high food prices slam the developing world, it’s usually the mothers in families who go hungry. [LaCrosse Tribune]

• Shame on you if you’ve ever complained there’s nowhere to eat around Penn Station. There are tons of options, you philistine, including the John Dory Oyster Bar and all of Koreatown. [Serious Eats NY]

Apples Take Pesticide Cake; Trader Joe’s Pad Thai–gate Hits Courts