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Jamie Lauren Says She Got Shafted by Top Chef Editors; Subway Tests Gluten-Free Menu

• Not surprisingly, following her [SPOILER ALERT] departure from this week’s episode of Top Chef: All Stars, Jamie Lauren speaks up about how unfairly the editors were in portraying her as constantly complaining, and not cooking much. [Feast]

• Two L.A. gang members recently pleaded “not guilty” to extorting $50 a week in “rent” from area food-truck vendors. We definitely would have asked for tacos instead. [LA Now/LAT]

• Mr. Bauer has begun the arduous task of traversing the North, South, and East Bays to update the Top 100, which is likely going to need to make room for 25 newcomers this year. [Between Meals/Scoop]

• Who knew it was so cutting-edge: Subway, of all places, is testing out gluten-free menu items. [Chart/CNN]

• Turns out composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is a big-time wine collector. We sympathize, since we find ourselves needing a drink to tolerate The Phantom of the Opera and that other stuff he writes. [WSJ]

• The USDA is poised to introduce new school-lunch guidelines that cap calorie counts in meals and emphasize whole grains. Enjoy those nachos while they last, kids! [ABC News]

• Happy Friday. It’s looking more and more likely that we are in fact on the verge of a global food crisis. [Moral Hazard/Forbes]

• Well-known U.K. chef Bjorn van der Horst, who has worked with Gordon Ramsay, was stopped at an airport and taken into detention for owing $93,000 in unpaid child support. Sheesh, what is in the water over at the Ramsay empire? [NYP]

Jamie Lauren Says She Got Shafted by Top Chef Editors; Subway Tests