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CUESA Hosts a Mini Asparagus Festival; Wild Sturgeon Are Facing Extinction

• CUESA, sponsor of the Ferry Plaza farmers’ market, is hosting an Asparagus Festival tomorrow featuring a one-dollar open-faced asparagus sandwich with goat cheese on ACME bread. [CUESA]

• Little Saigon Deli is offering “decent” banh mi sandwiches out of a takeout window on Steuart Street. [SFoodie]

• A street artist in Berkeley is celebrating beer. [Uptown Almanac]

• The black market for Beluga caviar is pushing wild sturgeon in Russia to extinction. [Reuters]

• Cheese has benefited from America’s increasing interest in food, with once-exotic varieties like gruyere now appealing to more palates. [NYT]

• Country ham is the latest pretender to bacon’s throne. [Salon]

• Michelle Obama’s crusade against childhood obesity has major companies like Kraft and Mars making public changes to their products and packaging. [The Atlantic]

• A new design for a produce barcode (not yet in use) fades over time, indicating the decreasing freshness of the fruit or vegetable. [UberGizmo via EMD]

• Despite their decreasing numbers, bluefin tuna were not included on the UN’s list of protected fish out of a concern that it would hurt fishing economies. [Guardian]

• After years of sharp growth, organic food sales are starting to plateau, a change attributed to shoppers’ shifting priorities through the recession. [Reuters]

CUESA Hosts a Mini Asparagus Festival; Wild Sturgeon Are Facing Extinction