Jacques Torres is using his secret weapon to sell Valentine’s Day sweets again this year: saucy messages. Sales of his chocolate lollipops went up last year when he wrote “spank me” on them.
[NY Post]
New legislation will ban the sale of candy and sugary beverages in schools. On-campus vending machines will be “filled with nutritious offerings” to make eating healthy easier.
[NY Times]
Former owner of the Monterey, Calif.-based SK Foods has been arrested in an alleged price-fixing plot that that involved buyers from Kraft, Frito-Lay, and Safeway.
[Washington Post]
After years of overexpanding, Whole Foods may finally be on the road to recovery. Despite high unemployment, customer traffic rose during the September quarter.
[Wall Street Journal]
Old-school diets are making a comeback, including the WeightWatchers diet with its points system, the common-sense Mayo Clinic Diet, and the Atkins diet — now with pasta!
[Mirror]
Students from the Automotive High School in Greenpoint recently visited butcher Tom Mylan at The Meat Hook as part of a class called “Food, Land, and You.”
[NY Times]
The FDA is looking to revise the calorie information on food packages to reflect more realistic serving sizes and, therefore, calorie counts.
[NY Times]
Think chefs will eat anything? David Burke of Townhouse and Fishtail won’t eat sardines or anchovies, and Wylie Dufresne of WD-50 can’t stomach fresh tomatoes and oysters.
[NY Post]