• Fear not, fans of of overpriced circus-y dinner theater: Teatro ZinZanni has found a new home. After their World Cup-related eviction, they may just move across the street, but the location is still TBA. [Chron, Earlier]
• Straus Family Creamery, which still bottles their milk and cream in large-format, old-timey glass bottles, is introducing pint-size bottles of milk to appeal to the café crowd. [SFoodie]
• Following on yesterday’s announcement that he’d be stepping down as NYT critic, here’s a roundup of Sam Sifton’s “most extreme” restaurant reviews during his brief tenure. [HuffPo]
• Life ain’t the same on the ranch in Texas, where the ongoing severe drought is rendering cattle country somewhat like the Dust Bowl era. [USAT]
• Be not afraid to try modernist cooking at home; olive oil powder is particularly fun and easy to use. [SE]
• Though the U.S. is decades behind Japan in vending-machine coolness, a display tomorrow in New York of twenty high-tech machines — which can accept credit cards, spit out full meals, and more — might help us down the road toward amending that. [Crain’s]
