Bimbo Acquires Sara Lee’s Bakery Business; Libya Offers Food Money toPlus: Good magazine takes issue with Costco even after the big-box agreed to stop selling endangered fish; and Campbell’s Soup Co. works to curb a health crisis that it and other food companies helped create, all in our morning news roundup.
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Tips For Shopping at Costco While High“What you wanna do here is find the biggest TV, change the channel to the Food Network, and just relax for three to four hours; whatever feels right.”
Actress Jackie Hoffman Grocery-Shops Like a Soccer MomActress and comedian Jackie Hoffman has one of those faces you’ve seen a million times but can’t quite identify — yet. She was the self-described “model” girlfriend of a blind man on Curb Your Enthusiasm and a rival cheese-ball maker to Amy Sedaris in The Book of Liz. Now she’s appearing in Xanadu on Broadway, a two-a-day schedule that has her eating breakfast at noon, lunch at five, and dinner at midnight. We checked in on her low-calorie-eating and bulk-buying habits.
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Chinese Restaurant Refuses Pennies; Alan Richman at It AgainThe controversy continues about a Chinese restaurant in the Bronx that refused to accept pennies: “Outside the restaurant, the block was abuzz with talk of spare change and spare ribs.” [NYT]
Alan Richman manages to piss off another major American city with his GQ column, this time by denying San Francisco’s influence on American food. [Serious Eats]
Related: Richman Kicks New Orleans While It’s Down [Grub Street]
The Science Barge, with its hydroponic circulators, wind turbines, and other green technologies, will show New York that it’s possible to produce food in the city without net carbon emissions or pollution. [Metro NY]
