• No salmonella here! All tomatoes grown in New York were deemed safe to eat by the State Department of Agriculture yesterday. [NY1]
• When it comes to fancy digital menus,Adour’s is the only one that isn’t completely wretched. [TONY]
•Top Chefjudge Ted Allen says picking this season’s winner wasn’t easy and that he and the other judges used “numerical models” to evaluate the finalists. [Zagat Buzz]
• Nearly half of the workers at the nation’s largest kosher-meat plant were arrested in an immigration raid, meaning both a shortage of kosher meat this summer and higher prices. [NYDN]
• Lee Gross has left his executive chef post atBroadway Eastfor unknown reasons. [NYS]
• Sunday’s post–James Beard Awards partying lasted until 4:30 a.m., so Cesare Casella took a bunch of chefs to his restaurantMaremmato feed them. [NYP]
• It’s always seemed like a bit of a hassle to us, but apparently there are only five steps to becoming a locavore. [NYP]
• David Chang is cooking a hog and Tom Colicchio will cook alongside Padma Lakshmi at this year’sFood & WineClassic in Aspen. [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine]
• Ruth Reichl is a big fan ofGray’s Papayahot dogs and claims she can eat a “ridiculous number” of them. [Fork in the Road/VV]
•如果所有孩子挑食就可以be shipped off to China, they’d be eating (and enjoying) Sichuanese snails and Tibetan yak in no time. [NYT]
