A Chef’s Ingredients, and His Hopes, Run Afoul of a Border Inspection (New York Times) In the travels of the chef Susur Lee, recipe ingredients raise red flags for airport security agents. [News Source]

Livestock ID plan caught up in identity crisis (Lincoln Journal Star) Nebraska's director of agriculture is watching closely as plansfor a national identification system for cattle, hogs and otherlivestock are pulled off the federal agenda. [News Source]

McDonald’s: the world’s local restaurant (Times Online) Have you tried a Ranch Snack Wrap or a Little Italian yet? Or a Little Chorizo Melt? Or an Oriental Snack Wrap? If you have, you are not alone. [News Source]

Randy Shore’s blog: Cheap and easy pulled pork at home (Vancouver Sun) Randy Shore blogs about how to make cheap and easy pulled pork at home. [News Source]

Does vCJD still pose a major public health threat? Mostly forgotten by the public, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) is still very much with us, incubating in possibly thousands of people. Estimates of the number of people infected range from 1 in 4,000 to 1 in 20,000... [News Source]

MELVINDALE: ‘Dirty Jobs’ TV show tapes episode at cow bone processing plant (The News-Herald) MELVINDALE — Mike Rowe got dirty Downriver. Ebonex Corp., a family owned company specializing in charred animal bones, was the subject for an episode of the Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs” that will air at 9 p.m. Tuesday. [News Source]