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Richmond Restaurant Worker Slain; Michele Bachman Wants Less Food Regulation for Small Farms

• The owner of Angie’s Bakery and Restaurant in Richmond found a 30-year-old employee dead in an apparent homicide in the restaurant’s bathroom last night. [Chron]

• Following on that Mission Local story about the recent spate of shootings in the city’s most popular food ‘hood, the L.A. Times chimes in: “The cluster of shootings has laid bare a reality many café denizens and bar-hoppers in this gentrifying landscape tend to tune out: About half of the neighborhood is gang territory.” [LAT]

• Even though not that many of us cook, fifty percent of the country now watches some form of food TV; Jonathan Kauffman compares it to watching baseball without ever playing it. [SFoodie]

• In what might be the first instance of this ever, we actually agree with Michele Bachman, who said stringent regulation of the food industry is overburdening small farms. [AP via Google]

• Seven IHOPs in Indiana and Ohio were mysteriously raided by the Feds yesterday. Maybe agents had really strong cravings for chocolate-chip pancakes? [NRN]

• In case you were wondering, Americans eat out an average of five times a week, mostly at lunch. [UPI]

• Now that it’s in the hummus game, PepsiCo is trying to get Ethiopians to grow more chickpeas; it claims that as a side benefit, its efforts will help the famine situation in Africa. Hmmm. [NYT]

• What does “all natural” mean when stamped on a food package? Eh, who knows. And that uncertainty has sparked lawsuits. [Law Blog/WSJ]

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