• The Pennsylvania’s Attorney General’s Office is looking into a series of questionable land deals — one involving the purchase of a golf course — made by the trustees of the Hershey School. [Inquirer]
• Suspects in a string of recent daytime burglaries in Torresdale were nabbed yesterday after they stopped at Wendy’s. [Daily News]
• After repeated protests from PETA, a Sacramento restaurant has stopped serving a dish of live, “dancing” shrimp. [MSNBC]
• Artist Jonathan Blaustein set out to see how many foods he could photograph that cost just one dollar. [NYT]
• In his role as US entrant in the Bocuse D’Or, Eleven Madison Park sous chef James Kent trains as hard as some athletes. [AFP]
• Two chefs — Chicago’s Ina PIckney and South Carolina’s Nathalee Dupree — have announced their candidacy for the U.S. Senate recently. [WSJ]
• A Turkish restaurant employs a full-time anthropologist to travel the globe and send back rare and disappearing ingredients. [SMH]
• Alinea chef Grant Achatz will lecture at Harvard next week. [Eater Chicago]
• British oysters are back in season this month; they’re one of the most in-demand ingredients on the market right now. [WSJ]
