• Blue Bottle's growth style is slow and steady, and it's working out for them; look for a Blue Bottled drink to hit grocery stores sometime soon. [WSJ]
• Super Bowl Sunday poses an interesting issue for Indiana, which bans liquor sales on Sundays — not to mention all the other towns and counties with some kind of Sunday "blue law." Better stock up! [AP via HuffPo]
• The Central Park Boathouse coughed up 114K to the Parks Department after it came out that the restaurant had been underreporting revenue from film shoots and the like. This scandal is unrelated to the wage-violation accusations that plagued the eatery last year. [Crain's]
• Some researchers are calling for sugar to be regulated just like alcohol and tobacco, claiming it causes just as many premature deaths. [LAT]
• For once, good news from the beef industry: The beef we eat today is more environmentally friendly than the stuff of 30 years ago. [Salt/NPR]
