TMI On Prune Chef’s Affair; What the Occupy Wall Street Protesters Are Eating

Government officials will not be asking food companies to remove cartoon characters from their ads and packages.
[ABC News]

A creepily detailed item on Gabrielle Hamilton exposes the Prune chef’s affair with her sister’s husband.
[NY Post]

Chefs like Heston Blumenthal and Grant Achatz are turning to ancient recipes that date as far back as the Middle Ages.
[Wall Street Journal]

City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn is asking the Bloomberg administration to justify requiring food-stamp applicants to be fingerprinted.
[NY Times]

The Occupy Wall Street protesters certainly aren’t starving. People are bringing and sending them everything from pizza to homemade vegan casserole.
[NY Times]

A profile of dim sum chef Peter Lee, of China Fun restaurant, who makes 1,000 dumplings per day.
[NY Daily News]

A roundup of new sandwiches around the city includes menu items from Potbelly Sandwich Shop, Zito’s Sandwich Shoppe, and Parm.
[NY Post]

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