• Fewer middle and high schools are selling candy and salty snacks to their students. [WSJ]
• Top Chef begins casting for its seventh season next month. [Eater NY]
• Next month, Bravo will debut Chef Academy, a new series following Michelin-starred chef Jean Christophe Novelli as he moves to Los Angeles and opens a cooking school. [Eat Me Daily]
• The owner of Park Slope’s Tea Lounge has scrapped his plans for a Brooklyn Heights outpost. [Brooklyn Paper]
• A sign for midtown cart Fahima Halal Food declares it to be much better than Kwik Meal — which just so happens to be owned by the Fahima owner’s brother. [Gothamist]
• The Food Network will soon launch programming in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. [Cincinnati Business Courier via Food Section]
• Lines at the Bronx’s food pantries are the longest they’ve been in quite a while. [City Room/NYT]
• The Manhattan Cocktail Classic was a pretty good time. [Feed/TONY]
