Weekly Media Mix: The Dalai Lama's Cooking Advice; Milk Board Changes PMS Campaign; And Russia Recognizes Beer As Alcohol

Every Friday, The Daily Byte's Weekly Media Mix rounds up some of the week's big food stories.

Politics
• China plans to start selling portions of the national pork reserve. [NYT]
• Russian President Dmitry Medvedev officially declares beer to be alcoholic. [BBC]

Restaurants
• New Jersey court rules that a restaurant can be sued for serving meat to vegetarians. [NJ]

Entertainment
• Dalai Lama gives cooking advice on Australian Master Chef show. [CBS]
• Chef Ludo Lefebvre's new TV series, Ludo Bites America, premieres on Sundance. [Epicurious]

Industry
• McDonald's announces plans to build their largest location ever in London for the 2012 Olympics. [Guardian]

Health
• The Cheesecake Factory takes top honors in The Center for Science in the Public Interest's 2011 Xtreme Eating Awards. [Consumerist]
• A new study reports that Europeans are genetically predisposed to crave more alcohol and fatty foods. [HuffPo]

Press
• The Milk Board alters their PMS-themed ad campaign due to backlash calling the ads as sexist. [HuffPo]

Shame of the Week
• Milk Burger debuts a signature burger resembling that of Shake Shack and then proceeds to remove an actual photo of the ShackBurger that appeared on their website this week after Serious Eats reported it. [GS]

Video
• Guy Fieri makes a visit to Hogwarts for a lesson in crafting potions with Snape. [College Humor]

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