• Mayor Bloomberg called the proposal to ban salt in restaurant cooking “ridiculous” on his radio show. [NYP]
Previously: Insane Bill Would Ban Salt in Restaurants, Impose $1,000 Fines
• Some feminists are turning to ultra-locavorism, but “if a woman is not careful, it seems, chicken wire can coop her up as surely as any gilded cage.” [NYT]
• The Department of Health may lift the city’s ban on beekeeping this week. [NYT]
• Children are increasingly turning to vegetarianism, even if their parents are meat eaters. [NYP]
• The man arrested for last week’s brutal beating at Social says he was acting in self-defense. [NYDN]
Previously: Nurse Assaulted at Party Bar
• The Sneaky Chef author Missy Chase Lapine is suing Jerry Seinfeld for allegedly slanderous remarks he made about her while she was suing his wife for cookbook plagiarism. [NYP]
• Companies are removing high-fructose corn syrup from many products, including Hunt’s ketchup and Gatorade. [AdAge]
• Chile lost about 13 percent of its wine in the recent earthquake. [WSJ]
• Gastrohotels are popping up alongside some of Spain’s top restaurants. [NYT]
• Parents in Brooklyn’s School District 21 are making their own bake-sale rules that ban chips, but allow yogurt. [NYP]
• Jamie Oliver would like to name his next baby Thorn because: “You would want to go out with someone called Thorn. You’d want to be his friend. When he gets his first date it’ll be like, ‘show us your thorn, Thorn’.” [STV]
