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Garces Ditches Valet Parking at Distrito; Kayne and Gordon Ramsay Team Up

• Jose Garces will no longer offer valet parking at his Mexican restaurant, Distrito, following a recent hike in valet-parking taxes. [Inquirer]

• At least 20 Amoroso’s Baking Co. drivers will lose their jobs as the bakery begins selling delivery routes to independent operators. [NBC Philadelphia]

• The FDA is not happy about a line of melatonin-laced brownies dubbed Lazy Larry, calling them potentially unsafe. Maybe folks are just mad that Mr. Larry looks a little — how do we say this — stoned? [NYDN]

• File under strange bedfellows: Kanye has reportedly signed up for cooking lessons with Gordon Ramsay. Evidently the rapper “loves British cuisine.” [MSN Celebrity UK via Food 52]

• Dieting causes brain cells to eat themselves, suggests a new study. But don’t worry, people are already planning to develop drugs to stop this. [LAT]

• A research team at North Carolina State University has received a $25 million federal grant to study the viruses that cause food poisoning, in particular, dangerous noroviruses. [News Observer]

Garces Ditches Valet Parking at Distrito; Kayne and Gordon Ramsay Team Up