• An Oakland man was shot in his head and his wife and children narrowly escaped injury after trying to give a homeless man a fish dinner last night, just after midnight in East Oakland. [Tribune]
• A new group is helping promote food trucks in the East Bay called OMFG (Oakland Mobile Food Group). [EBX]
• How come celebrity chefs from New York never open restaurants in S.F.? Because “we’re a little provincial, a little smug about our homegrown talent, a little less enthralled with big-name chefs…” [Between Meals/Scoop]
• New York is not the only city with a food truck for dogs; there’s now one rolling in Miami, too. [Miami Herald]
• As he awaits trial in a jail cell, deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is refusing to eat solid food. [Times of India]
• Some French guy bought a bottle of wine for $123,000. We’re not even going to calculate how much that is per glass. [NYDN]
• The hunger situation in the Horn of Africa has gotten so bad that the U.N. is conducting an emergency food airlift there; meanwhile, South Korea sent sacks of flour to aid the hungry in North Korea. [Voice of America; Korea JoongAng Daily]
• Turns out a lot of the produce scraps we toss — corn cobs, watermelon rinds, cauliflower leaves — are edible and quite tasty. [NYT]
