• Boulder is Bon Appetit’s foodiest town of the year. [BA]
• Baja booster and Tijuana restaurant empire owner Javier Palscencia is coming to cook at Test Kitchen next month. [Squid Ink]
• Joining Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish and L.A. Times’ Daily Dish food blog is a new discount site called, yes, The Daily Dish. [PR Newswire]
• Matthew Dickson, a former manager at Malo, is planning a taqueria. [Feast]
• While restaurant openings are sagging in L.A. and New York, San Francisco is experiencing a boom. [The Street]
• Virtual gift cards are on the rise at casual dining chains. [NRN]
• Affluent local families are employing a home chef service called Dish’s Dish, which has copyrighted the term “culinistas” to describe its roving cooks. [L.A. Times]
• It’s mooncake season in Asia and this year, everyone from the Hilton to Starbucks is selling the treats. [Ad Age]
• Reality shows about weight-loss and sitcoms featuring heavy-set characters are on the rise, leading ABC to say “fat is making a comeback in Hollywood.” [ABC News]
