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Obama’s Shark-Fin Faux Pas; Talking Cheese With Alain Ducasse

• Oops! Barack Obama apparently stopped by a San Francisco Chinese restaurant that is among the handful of places in the U.S. still serving shark-fin soup. (For the record, the president ordered dumplings and steamed buns.) [SF Chronicle]

• Quelle fromage! Bruce Palling heads to London and buys cheese with Alain Ducasse. [WSJ]

• Gordon Ramsay is “disappointed” that the owner of Laurier Gordon Ramsay restaurant in Montreal is going to remove Gordo’s name from the restaurant. Ramsay had served as a consultant. [Daily Mail UK]

• An Albany grocer plead guilty to larceny charges after he cashed food stamps for customers and kept some of the proceeds for himself. [WSJ]

• Time to switch to fresh-squeezed: The FDA “won’t allow more fungicide in orange juice.” But why were they considering it in the first place? [Reuters]

• Sam Sifton is talking apple pie — just the thing to brighten a winter day — in the Times. [NYT]

Obama’s Shark-Fin Faux Pas; Talking Cheese With Alain Ducasse