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Dungeness Crab Season Opens Tomorrow; Vintage Colonel Sanders Cookbook Discovered

• Dungeness crab season is tentatively set to open Tuesday, with this year expected to be about as bountiful as last year. [Chron]

Plum Bar bartender Scott Beattie discusses the importance of measuring your cocktail ingredients. “The difference between one dash of bitters and three is catastrophic.” [HuffPo]

• SFO’s new and ever so foodie Terminal 2 gets some love from Food & Wine. [F&W;]

• Sales of locally grown food, whether direct from farmers’ markets or through grocers or restaurants, amounted to $4.8 billion in 2008 according to a recent study by the Department of Agriculture. [AP/HuffPo]

• A just-uncovered original Colonel Sanders cookbook suggests the dude would’ve fit right into the current dining climate; it seems he was obsessed with “real old-time country and farm cooking.” [Boston Globe]

• Being a cheese sculptor is “much more delightful than working with wood or stone. You can snack while you work.” [Salt/NPR]

•Turns out the local-food movement in the U.S. is a lot bigger than it’s been given credit for in the past: a $4.8 billion industry, to be precise. [WP]

• Chain restaurant retailers have discovered college campuses as a great market, because many students are essentially captive audiences. [NRN]

Dungeness Crab Season Opens Tomorrow; Vintage Colonel Sanders Cookbook