Sampler Platter: Stinkers, beer waste as fish food, evil agribusiness

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A Monday morning dose of news...

• N.Y. Times visits faux trucker bar Stinkers in Silver Lake (three months after the L.A. Times, though we do have the home court advantage): Kitschy or cheesy? The writer’s not quite sure.
• Food industry under scrutiny at Berlin Film Festival as two anti-agribusiness docs share the spotlight: ‘Food, Inc.’ and ‘Terra Madre’ (Mother Earth). Reuters
• Even pets are feeling the pinch. Animal food bank opens in Lawrenceville, Ga. Detroit Free Press
• Starbucks, the chain that normalized the $3 cup of coffee, will start offering discount breakfasts: $3.95 for coffee and food. Triangle Business Journal
• Can we turn beer waste into fish food? Yes, we can! 9News.com
• British celeb chef Antony Worrall Thompson closes four restaurants; he’s using his own savings to keep the other two running. Guardian

-- Elina Shatkin