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Food Network Host Busted for Recipe Rip-Offs; Charting the World’s Water Use

• Busted: Food Network had to axe a show called Dessert First after execs discovered the host had been ripping off her recipes from other, more famous, chefs. [NYP]

• Probably the best headline you’ll read all day: “Hot Dog Chef Charged with Bank Heists”. [Charties Valley Patch]

• Dutch scientists released a new study that charts global water use between 1996 and 2005. [NYT]

• All that organic food you’ve been eating might be a secret source of… dietary arsenic? Wait, that’s the stuff that isn’t bad for you, right? [Fox News]

• Be careful next time you buy celery: Proposed government budget cuts “would eliminate the nation’s only program that regularly tests fruits and vegetables for deadly pathogens.” [AP]

Food Network Host Busted for Recipe Rip-Offs; Charting the World’s Water Use