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Real Housewife Penning Toaster Cookbook; Cat Dropping Coffee Is The World’s Priciest

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

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

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

• Diners taking photos of their food is frustrating both guests and chefs like Ludo Lefebvre and Grant Achatz, but few have instituted a ban on food photography in their restaurants. [L.A. Times]

• This year L.A. food trucks made their way to Coachella. [L.A. Times]

• The re-opening of Hollywood’s Off-Vine is partially due to the nearly $100,000 raised by guests. [L.A. Business Journal]

• 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]

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

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