• Authorities are blaming a fire at Franconello Italian Restaurant in Beverly on a gas leak. A small explosion caused damage to the building, but luckily no one was hurt. [NBC Chicago]
• Sometimes you can build it, but they still won’t come. Maywood Market was built in a so-called food desert last year, but it has struggled since then to attract customers. [Trib]
• Culinary-school graduates are once again kvetching that their programs aren’t worth the money — only this time they’re suing. [HuffPo]
• New evidence shows that African ancestry corresponds with a higher risk of peanut allergies. [Cypress Times]
• The FDA is making plans to revise nutrition labels so that serving sizes are more accurate and calories are emphasized most of all. So in about ten years we’ll have a new label? [AP via HuffPo]
• “Restaurants” like Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut are lobbying to be allowed to accept food stamps. We don’t even know where to start about what a terrible idea this is. [USAT]
• Beekeeping is Über-trendy, sure, but it’s also good that people are taking it up, considering feral bees have pretty much died out, and the little buzzers’ pollination efforts are necessary to our survival. [USAT]
