• According to a comedian who interned at theSpotted Pigthis summer: “The gnudi are only made by a privileged few and nobody can even be in the vicinity so as to keep the recipe secret.” [Amateur Gourmet]
• TheL.A.Timesdoubted迈克尔·菲尔普斯是否- - - - - -or anyone — could really eat a 12,000-calorie breakfast, but Crazy Legs Conti does it in a five-minute video. [Fork in the Road/VV]
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• You can get a kati roll at the U.S. Open this year, among these other new bites, but the $13 Grey Goose Honey Deuce hasn’t changed. [NYDN]
Related:U.S. Open Eats
• The west side of Oakland, California, has no grocery stores, and 60 percent of its citizens live below the poverty line. But there are 80 urban farms there. [WSJ]
• City Harvest’s new hybrid refrigerated trucks have 70 percent less exhaust and get 10.5 miles per gallon. But they don’t haveDKNY’s fall color palette, like the vans do. [NYDN]
• The Food Network has partnered with charity Share Our Strength to build sustainable fruit and vegetable gardens around the country — New York City will get one in 2009. Beware of Rachael Ray hiding in the corn. [Market Watch]
