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More About That California Food Safety Law; Live Animal Slaughter Outlawed In Netherlands

• Apparently that Food Handler Card law was delayed in getting rolled out because it wasn’t available in Chinese… and because the State kind of failed to notify anyone. [ABC 7]

Mission Pie gets a little Journal love. [WSJ]

• Tonight is San Francisco Magazine’s annual Best of the Bay fête, upstairs at the Metreon, and you can still buy $100 advance tickets until noon. [SF Mag]

• Here’s how to celebrate the Fourth of July while at the same time minimizing your impact on the environment. Yes, someone really wrote this. [NYT]

• The Dutch parliament passed a bill that bans live-animal slaughter, which will make it nearly impossible for observant Jews and Muslims to get meat that is kosher or halal. [AP]

• British pop star Cliff Richard, who is 70, hopped into the kitchen at Gus’s Fried Chicken in Memphis. Apparently what he made was quite good! [Mirror UK]

• More than ever, chefs are dreaming up dishes with the help of digital gizmos like Kindles and laptops. [WSJ]

• The body of an Austin, Texas, woman was found in a restaurant ventilation duct, where she apparently got stuck while trying to sneak into the eatery. [KTLA

More About That California Food Safety Law; Live Animal Slaughter Outlawed In