This Weekend in 'New York Times' Food News
Benihana Founder Dies: Rocky Aoki opened the first of his Benihana steakhouses, where chefs' knife tricks are as much a part of the meal as the food, in 1964. He died Thursday night, aged 69, of pneumonia.
Eating Out In: Lisbon, Bucharest, Valencia Street in San Francisco, Dublin.
InBev Raises Offer for Anheuser-Busch: The Belgian brewer offers about $50 billion for Anheuser, up from the $46.3 billion offer that Anheuser spurned last month. The deal represents $70 a share in cash.
Out of the Kitchen, Into the Field: A portrait of six women farmers and what makes them tick.
Organic Growth: Name brand? Store brand? Safeway’s virtue-food products aim to blur the line.
Out of Africa: At the Fancy Food Show in Manhattan last week, Jill Santopietro says the most exciting products were to be found in the African pavilion, making its Fancy Food Show debut.
More in Seinfeld Cookbook Fracas: Missy Chase Lapine, the author suing Jessica Seinfeld over copyright infringement, is expanding her lawsuit to include Seinfeld's book's publisher? Got that? Whatevs.
New York Magazine Buys MenuPages: The menu resource will remain a standalone site while providing New York with listings. The acquisition gives New York's parent company an entry into seven other metro markets.
Obesity Comes to the Delivery Room: As obesity spreads to every demographic, its appearance among pregnant women has created a new medical subspecialty—"bariatric obstetrics."
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A contact I trust, who has previously sent me other news stories before they were made official, just sent me a message about an hour ago saying the Anheuser-Busch InBev deal is done now.
If anybody cares.
FastFoodCritic at 11:41PM on 07/13/08
Hey now. You guys overlooked the listings of restaurants in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn in The City section on Sunday!
www.gastrogirls.com
GastroGirls at 12:15PM on 07/14/08