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Restaurant-Hosted Cooking Classes; Asian Carp Keep on Coming

• 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]

Restaurant-Hosted Cooking Classes; Asian Carp Keep on Coming