• There was an early morning fire at Bayside Coffee Shop (2011 Bayshore Boulevard) in the Bayview. No one was in the building at the time. [Examiner]
• Famed French chef Guy Savoy recently dropped in on Atelier Crenn. [Tablehopper]
• KQED makes the claim that Plow (1299 18th Street) in Potrero Hill has the best eggs in San Francisco, and it might be because they follow Ruth Reichl’s heart-unhealthy dictum of using a stick of better for every four scrambled eggs. [KQED]
• Mormon food isn’t boring; in the words of one woman interviewed for this story, “sugar is the only vice we’re allowed to have.” [NYT]
• Well, this is scary: New research suggests that PFCs, chemicals found in food packaging, weaken vaccines’ effectiveness in children. [Daily Mail UK]
• Following its purchase of Every Day With Rachael Ray magazine in October, Meredith has acquired Allrecipes.com for $175 million. [Crain’s NY]
• All the poor beleaguered veggie burger wants is to be more like meat. [WSJ]
• Um, sorry, anyone who had their hopes up: A new bill in Oklahoma prohibits human fetuses from being used in food production. [Two-way/NPR]