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Culinary School Grads Sue; KFC and Pizza Hut Want to Accept Food Stamps

• Culinary-school graduates are once again kvetching that their programs aren’t worth the money — only this time they’re suing. [HuffPo]

• They’re now doing a monthly food swap at the North Oakland farmers’ market, which is kind of like the Underground Market, but with a free bin for peoples’ excess vegetables from their gardens. [Oakland North]

• In a recent national poll, In-N-Out took second place behind Five Guys as consumers’ favorite fast food chain. [CHOW]

• “Restaurants” like Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut are lobbying to be allowed to accept food stamps. We don’t even know where to start about what a terrible idea this is. [USAT]

• New evidence shows that African ancestry corresponds with a higher risk of peanut allergies. [Cypress Times]

• The FDA is making plans to revise nutrition labels so that serving sizes are more accurate and calories are emphasized most of all. So in about ten years we’ll have a new label? [AP via HuffPo]

• Beekeeping is Über-trendy, sure, but it’s also good that people are taking it up, considering feral bees have pretty much died out, and the little buzzers’ pollination efforts are necessary to our survival. [USAT]

Culinary School Grads Sue; KFC and Pizza Hut Want to Accept Food Stamps