• Get a load of what it’s like to be a judge at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival. It actually doesn’t sound so bad. [Mercury News]
• Foreign Cinema’s Gayle Pirie relays the stressful tale of getting pulled over coming off the Bay Bridge, after a fifteen-hour day and several cocktails, and being subjected to a breathalyzer. [Scoop]
• KQED pays a visit to the new Boot & Shoe Café in Oakland, says they’re “off to a great start.” [Bay Area Bites/KQED]
• A visit to Mill Valley Beer Works, complete with pastrami and jicama sticks. [Bunrab]
• KFC is looking for stories about Colonel Sanders so that the company may “reintroduce [the] chain’s founder to future generations.” Just what they need. [Official Press Release]
• A small food-poisoning outbreak is happening in Illinois. The cause: Mexican papayas. [Chicago Tribune]
• Speaking of food-borne illness, some American officials are pushing to broaden the types of E. coli that are subject to federal regulation. [USAT]
• A burglar that is being labeled “sloppy” by his victims is targeting restaurants in Tampa. He’s not too sloppy; he’s still on the loose. [WTSB]