Tumult over the gentrification that could result from a Trader Joe's opening in a traditionally black Portland, Oregon neighborhood shows how grocery stores signify much more than a place to stock our kitchens: (Huffington Post)

Camel milk, which apparently has a "pleasantly surprising nutty, smoky, slightly Bratwursty flavour", is being sold for the first time with coffee in the UK, although it's been served for a while in the United Arab Emirates: (BBC)

Responding to legal challenges over their use of the word "natural," Pepsi has quietly replaced that word with "simply" in products like Frito-Lay chips and Quaker Granola; the ingredients remain the same: (Huffington Post)

Corn and bean farmers in the midwest are beginning to replace those crops with produce veggies to get in on the rising local food market; it's exciting to hear that more money can be made that way due to rising demand: (New York Times)

Now that Food Studies is an increasingly popular offering at universities, the academic audience for food blogs and food writing is expanding; will academia have an impact on the way that food blogs are written? (Huffington Post)