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Dutch Cheese Wins in Madison; Today in Cancer-Causing Food Coloring

• A Dutch cheese, a low-fat gouda called Vermeer, took first place at the biennial World Champion Cheese Contest in Madison. [Tribune]

• If you’re curious what an upscale, local-food-focused Starbucks looks like, here’s photo evidence of the new one in Amsterdam. [HuffPo]

• It’s nearly spring, and beers are going citrusy: Coors will roll out an iced-tea flavored beer, and Anheuser-Busch will introduce Lime-a-Rita margarita-flavored suds. We’ll stick to spiked Arnold Palmers, thanks. [NYDN]

• Rush Limbaugh does NOT like books that expose the underbelly of the food system, as evidenced by his “young, single, overeducated” comments about Tracie McMillan, author of The American Way of Eating. Jeez, he would have hated The Jungle. [Seattle Times]

• Sip on this: Coca-Cola had to modify ingredients in one of its caramel-color additives to avoid having to put cancer warnings on its cans under a new California law. Yeep. [Salt/NPR]

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Dutch Cheese Wins in Madison; Today in Cancer-Causing Food Coloring