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Evan Kleiman Calls For More Farm Food in The City; PETA Kills Dancing Shrimp Dish

• “We all live in the city but we want to eat like we live on the farm,” Evan Kleiman declared last night at Taste of the L.A. Foodshed at Vibiana’s, while Rob Eshman posits that L.A.’s high poverty rate leads to poor nutrition but not “starving -African type hunger.” [Jewish Journal]

• A Turkish restaurant employs a full-time anthropologist to travel the globe and send back rare and disappearing ingredients. [SMH]

• The head of California Grocers Association blames the 1992 L.A. Riots for South L.A.’s current lack of grocery stores. [Intersections South L.A.]

• After repeated protests from PETA, a Sacramento restaurant has stopped serving a dish of live, “dancing” shrimp. [MSNBC]

• Artist Jonathan Blaustein set out to see how many foods he could photograph that cost just one dollar. [NYT]

• In his role as US entrant in the Bocuse D’Or, Eleven Madison Park sous chef James Kent trains as hard as some athletes. [AFP]

• Two chefs — Chicago’s Ina PIckney and South Carolina’s Nathalee Dupree — have announced their candidacy for the U.S. Senate recently. [WSJ]

• Alinea chef Grant Achatz will lecture at Harvard next week. [Eater Chicago]

• British oysters are back in season this month; they’re one of the most in-demand ingredients on the market right now. [WSJ

Evan Kleiman Calls For More Farm Food in The City; PETA Kills Dancing Shrimp