• West Hollywood’s The Abbey has laid out flowers for Elizabeth Taylor, who once told an owner it was her “favorite pub.” [NBC]
• Never fear, Starbucks’ plan to take over the world is back full-bore, with an eye on grocery-store aisles and China. [USAT]
• Vernon-Main and Jefferson Park are fast becoming new hubs for great Salvadoran cooking. [LAT]
• Nancy Silverton, Susan Feniger, and Suzanne Tracht cooked a kosher luncheon for 700 people on Tuesday at 100th anniversary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. [LAT]
• True story: “To make potato chips, it takes beet juice, purple cabbage and carrots.” With everyone into healthy eating, Frito-Lay is retooling some recipes to replace weird-sounding ingredients with natural ones. [WSJ]
• Grocers say high vegetable prices should come down soon, as spring veggies enter the market. Does that mean we’ll be able to have our eggplant sandwich again? [USAT]
• It might be time to start loving veggie burgers: Severe drought in Texas has driven up beef and wheat prices. [Bloomberg]