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Delivering Pizzas in Philly Is Deadly; Calorie Counting Is Unpatriotic

• Eleven Philly-area cooks will compete for a $1 million prize in this weekend’s Pillsbury Bake-Off. [Philly.com]

• Delivering pizzas is a dangerous job, with drivers often getting robbed or even killed. [Daily News]

• Popeye’s CEO Cheryl Bachelder on federally-mandated calorie counts: “They are trying to tell us what to eat and how much. That’s just un-American.” [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

• Domino’s new ad campaign specifically targets three men who haven’t tried the chain’s new pizza. [Slice]

• The White House is pressuring Japan to resume imports of U.S. beef, halted because of mad cow scares in 2006. [NYT]

Elle publisher Carol Smith is the new vice president and publishing director for Bon Appetit. [Crain’s]

• Pizza Hut’s “You don’t have to settle” ad campaign heads a list of the top ten restaurant commercials of the first quarter of 2010. [NRN]

Delivering Pizzas in Philly Is Deadly; Calorie Counting Is Unpatriotic