A New Book on Coke; Women Well Represented at Beards

Cleaners have finally cleared out all the dead-bug-covered rotting food at that closed Popeye’s in East New York. [NY Daily News]

A new book pays tribute to 125 years of Coca-Cola advertising and celebrates the great equalizing power of the product. [T Magazine]

Alan Philips and Jason Apfelbaum of the supper club Guerrilla Culinary Brigade will set up shop in the old Thor space with Co-Op Food & Drink. [NY Times]

Some people with big backyards are doing heavy-duty nose-to-tail grilling. We’re talking whole, $2,000 steer here. [Wall Street Journal]

And here comes the first report on how women finally made their mark on the James Beard Awards. [Wall Street Journal]