• Legendary New York restaurateur George Lang, owner of Café des Artistes from 1975 to 2009, has passed on at the age of 86. [NYT via Grub Street NY]
• Don’t know what kind of wine to BYOB of to Mission Chinese Food, to pair with all their super-spicy food? New SFoodie editor W. Blake Gray has a couple of ideas. [SFoodie]
• Mr. Bauer can’t understand why all these studies say eating out all the time makes you fat. Where he eats almost every night, in farm-to-table-happy S.F., it’s all vegetables and healthfulness, and he stays marvelously svelte. [Between Meals/Scoop]
• Some eccentric café owners in England are selling their collection of sandwich crusts and other crumbs left behind by famous people. [BBC]
• Gawker says the Heidi Montag- and Ashley Dupré-starring Famous Food is a “train wreck.” Sounds similar to Vulture’s first reaction! [Gawker]
• House Republicans are not siding with the Obama administration’s efforts to limit junk-food advertising to kids. Quelle surprise. [USAT]
• Sugar and dairy are the latest commodities whose prices have soared. However, the U.S. corn crop is plenty big this year, which will help drive some food costs down. [Bloomberg, Mercury News]
• Meanwhile, Kenya is the latest African nation to see rioting over food prices; police dispersed a recent protest with tear gas. [Reuters]
