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Taylor’s Refresher Heirs Fuming About Name Change; India Gets Its First Taco Bell

• A more complete accounting of the Taylor’s Refresher name change, and how the Taylor heirs are hopping mad about it. [Chron]

• How long would it take to remove all the chewing gum on the Mission’s sidewalks? [Mission Local]

• Wine douches should beware an email fraud scam involving the unloading of some bottles of Petrus. [Spume]

• Gary Regan offers a guide to substituting spirits in cocktails. [The Cocktailian/Chron]

• India’s first-ever Taco Bell opened last week. [NRN]

• A predicted grasshopper infestation this summer could damage millions of acres of crops like barley, corn, and beets. [WSJ]

• A group of French and Italian researchers are investigating the genome structure of Périgord truffles. [NYT]

• Environmental activists are using social media to attack Nestle about its use of Indonesian palm oil. [WSJ]

• Italy’s famed asparagus season is under way. [WSJ]

• March’s unusually warm weather spelled an early end for Vermont’s maple syrup season. [NYT]

• Though the Senate committee on agriculture passed a school lunch bill, it did so with much less funding than the Obama administration had hoped for. [Diner’s Journal/NYT]

Newsday reporter Sumathi Reddy is the Wall Street Journal’s new restaurant reporter. [NYO]

• NATO is shuttering burgers bars and pizzerias at Afghanistan bases to improve focus and efficiency. [BBC]

Taylor’s Refresher Heirs Fuming About Name Change; India Gets Its First