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Vitamins May be Harmful; Joe Jonas Loves Susan Feniger

• Vitamins, long thought to be, if not helpful, then at least harmless, have been linked to higher mortality in older women. [BBC]

• LAPD shot a man outside of Mar Vista’s Jack in the Box early this morning, after the man allegedly threatened officers with a knife. [KTLA]

• Summer weather was tough on the peanut crop, which will force peanut-butter manufacturers to raise prices. Better stock up on Skippy. [WSJ via Pocono Record]

• Joe Jonas is supposedly really into dining out, and loves Susan Feniger! [Dispatch]

• For every pumpkin sold this year at Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch, Yoplait will donate $1 to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. [Perishable News]

• Congratulations to Esquire’s chef of the year, our own John Sedlar, along with Ray’s and Sotto, which both won mentions for best new restaurant. [Esquire]

• A new app lets travelers order food from airport restaurants via their iPhones and receive gate-side delivery. Fellow travelers will love you when you bring that tuna salad on the plane. [NRN]

• It seems that when cacao was first exported from South America by Europeans, they didn’t get all the really good stuff. As such, there’s more flavor variety lurking in the jungles of Peru. [NPR]

• If you want to see the full list of winners for this year’s Association of Food Journalists awards, tool on over to Eater. [Eater]

Vitamins May be Harmful; Joe Jonas Loves Susan Feniger