• This whole salmonella disaster has been traced to just one little jalapeño pepper grown in Mexico, which the Feds found in a Texas distribution center.
Related: Feds Finger Jalapeños As Source of Salmonella Cases

• Feel free to eat oysters any month of the year, since most commercially harvested shellfish sidestep the problems that can affect them in summer months. [NYT]

• If you're not into maintaining your own backyard garden and growing your own produce, you can pay people to do it for you. Yes, hire a gardener! [NYT]
Related: My Empire of Dirt [NYM]

• Locavores concerned with “food miles” — how far food travels before it is sold — need to consider that the transportation of local produce is not always more carbon-friendly than that of produce found at the supermarket. [Salon]

• Florent Morellet is excited for his diner to close and to move on to the next stage of his life, but he is mum on details for what will replace the meatpacking-district institution: “Something interesting is going on. I can’t tell you.” [Gothamist]
Related: The 25th Hour of Florent Morellet [NYM]

• Scores, which made its reputation on the sky-high tabs its patrons would rack up, now has its own financial troubles, and now, Scores East could be facing bankruptcy. [NYO]
Related: Scores Hits the Skids

• Cookbook bloggers, those who tackle the challenge of cooking every recipe in a given volume and then write about it, are the craziest bloggers of all. [WSJ]

• The Sex and the City movie includes scenes shot in notable restaurants like Buddakan and the Modern. [NYS]

• After 1,300 phone requests on an online petition with more than 1,000 signatures, Kellogg is putting the Hydrox cookie — an Oreo alternative — back into production. [WSJ]

You’re going to regret not going to Per Se the last time you had a chunk of change to burn: Thomas Keller’s luxe restaurant has raised prices for both the regular and vegetarian menus to $275 for nine courses. [Bottomless Dish/Citysearch]

Violence continues in the Flatiron club district, as two men were arrested for stabbing a patron and a bouncer at Club Spy after a fight erupted in the VIP room. [NYP]

As part of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Green the Capitol project, the cafeterias are getting a locavore makeover, with the goal to sell as much locally grown, organic food as possible. [WP]