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The Deadline Looms For Amoroso Drivers; Many Produce Scraps Are Edible and Tasty

• Amoroso Baking Co. drivers have until the ned of the weekend to decide whether or not to buy their routes from the hoagie roll maker or lose their jobs. [KYW Newsradio]

• Pennsylvania Department of Health has issued a warning on potential measles exposure at several suburban restaurants and stores, including a Chick-fil-A in Berks County and a Starbucks in Delaware County. [CBS Philly]

• Some French guy bought a bottle of wine for $123,000. We’re not even going to calculate how much that is per glass. [NYDN]

• As he awaits trial in a jail cell, deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is refusing to eat solid food. [Times of India]

• The hunger situation in the Horn of Africa has gotten so bad that the U.N. is conducting an emergency food airlift there; meanwhile, South Korea sent sacks of flour to aid the hungry in North Korea. [Voice of America; Korea JoongAng Daily]

• Turns out a lot of the produce scraps we toss — corn cobs, watermelon rinds, cauliflower leaves — are edible and quite tasty. [NYT]

• New York is not the only city with a food truck for dogs; there’s now one rolling in Miami, too. [Miami Herald]

The Deadline Looms For Amoroso Drivers; Many Produce Scraps Are Edible and Tasty