• Restaurants are increasingly offering off-hours cooking classes to beef up the bottom line. [Tribune]
• The ecosystem-killing Asian carp are moving ever closer to invading Lake Michigan. [DFP]
• The latest trend for locavores: hunting lessons. [NYT]
• Murray’s Cheese will open fifty locations in Kroger supermarkets across the country. [Diner’s Journal/NYT]
• The USDA is concerned that dozens of states aren’t properly administering food stamps. [WSJ]
• Were their bid for Cadbury successful, Hershey and Ferrero would likely split up the company. [NYP]
• Vietnam is reviving its puffer fish export program. [NYT]