• Today’s Taste of Chicago will have a much larger police presence than last year’s, including on public transit and at Taste-adjacent train and bus stops. This is all despite the smaller number of vendors and lower expected turnout. [Tribune]
• Over 2,000 specialty food purveyors will exhibit at the Fancy Food Show in New York, which starts this weekend, but most consumers won’t get to taste the products until they hit supermarket shelves. [City Room/NYT]
• Meanwhile, Grocery stores are cutting back on inventory and slashing the variety of goods they offer — no more 100-item salad dressing selections. [WSJ]
• India’s security forces are mixing one of the world’s hottest chili powders into hand grenades. [Reuters]
