• 300 potential cheftestants showed up at the Chicago auditions for Gordon Ramsay’s MasterChef. [Daily Herald]
• Some Coca-Cola bottles are now partially made from plants. [WSJ]
• Bobby Flay will begin penning a monthly column for Parade on January 31. [Fishbowl NY/Mediabistro]
• Chinese officials have discovered melamine-tainted dairy products in the country’s stores for the third time in a month. [NYT]
• Delaware’s Senate has passed a calorie-posting law. [NRN]
• The Service Employees Industrial Union will protest outside of multinational catering corporation Sodexo’s Paris headquarters today. [NYT]