• Chinese purveyors of shark fin in Los Angeles feel unfairly targeted by recent legislation banning the sale of the product. [LAT]
• A man was shot and killed early Sunday morning in front of Hollywood’s Stefano’s Two Guys From Italy Restaurant. [Hollywood Patch]
• One hot culinary figure since El Bulli’s closing is Sweden’s Magnus Nilsson, who favors foods like gulls’ eggs and fried thrush heads at his restaurant, Fäviken. [Newsweek via Daily Beast]
• Forget supper clubs; in Basque country, the popular thing is all-male gastronomic societies, dubbed txokos. [WSJ]
• This weekend’s Anatolian Food Festival proved to be very popular, drawing more attendees than predicted on its third day. [Today’s Zaman]
• Subway plans to unveil “contactless payment” via phone, keychain fobs, etc. by next year. Kind of like a real subway. [NRN]
