• Katz’s corned-beef sandwich contains a whopping 4,490 milligrams of salt. [NYT]
• Don’t give up on wine sales in grocery stores. Governor Paterson put the money-making scheme in his new budget. [Pour/NYT]
• Applications at the Culinary Institute of America are up 50 percent in the past six years. [NYP]
• Rangers captain Chris Drury plans to franchise Stamford’s popular Colony Grill pizzeria. [NYP]
• It’s harder to buy snacks at store checkouts in Manhattan than it is in the rest of the country, according to a new study. [NYP]
• Madonna recently invested $1.5 million in Vita Coco coconut water. [NYP]
• Despite recent overhauls, New York City public-school lunches are still not very healthy. [NYDN]
• Candy-company consolidation threatens regional candies. [WSJ]