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JP’ers Negotiate Community Benefits With Whole Foods; French Guy Buys Really, Really Expensive Wine

• More Whole Foods news: The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council is one step closer to negotiating a community benefits agreement with the controversial market coming to Hyde Square and just appointed a five-member team to cut the deal. [JP Gazette]

• Some French guy bought a bottle of wine for $123,000. We’re not even going to calculate how much that is per glass. [NYDN]

• As he awaits trial in a jail cell, deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is refusing to eat solid food. [Times of India]

• The hunger situation in the Horn of Africa has gotten so bad that the U.N. is conducting an emergency food airlift there; meanwhile, South Korea sent sacks of flour to aid the hungry in North Korea. [Voice of America; Korea JoongAng Daily]

• Turns out a lot of the produce scraps we toss — corn cobs, watermelon rinds, cauliflower leaves — are edible and quite tasty. [NYT]

• New York is not the only city with a food truck for dogs; there’s now one rolling in Miami, too. [Miami Herald]

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