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Jim Koch Wants to Take Patriot’s Day National; Apple Growers Fret

• Sam Adams creator Jim Koch wants to make Patriot’s Day a national holiday. [Globe]

• The state’s apple growers are concerned that the recent warm weather could be followed by a harvest-spoiling cold snap. [Globe]

• Kenya’s farmers are losing $1.3 million a day due to the Iceland volcano. [Guardian]

• The world’s most expensive coffee beans come from the droppings of the civet cat. [NYT]

• Wine dinners are the new boys’ nights out. [NYP]

• Penguin Group Australia had to reprint its Pasta Bible after finding that a recipe for tagliatelle called for “salt and freshly ground black people.” [NYDN]

• New Real Housewives of New York star Sonja Morgan already has a cookbook of quick toaster oven recipes in development. [NYP]

• An Ohio woman found some sort of disgusting substance in a Chef Boyardee can. [WCPO via Consumerist]

Jim Koch Wants to Take Patriot’s Day National; Apple Growers Fret