What’s the Big Whoop? Pie-minded folks in Pennsylvania are in a heated debate with their compatriots in Maine over which states' residents created the first whoopie pie. Throwing a wrench into both of their half-baked arguments is a food historian, who tells the Wall Street Journal that the original documented fluffy cookie sandwich is actually from Massachusetts. Will we ever know for sure? [ wsj.com]

A Diet of Processed Foods Linked to Lower IQ: A recent study published by the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reveals a link between diet in early childhood and IQ. Of the 14,000 children studied, those who consumed a predominately processed food diet before the age of three (the brain grows fastest up to this age) exhibited a lower IQ at the age of 8.5 than those who took a more health-conscious dietary approach. [ sciencedaily.com]

Better School Lunches Do Indeed Exist: There’s been a ton of hullabaloo in the news about the non-nutritious state of school lunches, so it comes as a bit of a surprise to see that some educational institutions might be getting it right. Here, the Huffington Post shows how public schools in New York City, Chicago and Atlanta are benefitting from a farm-to-table lunch program. [ huffingtonpost.com]

The Food Processor Turns 40: The appliance we’ve grown to know as the food processor was introduced 40 years ago in Paris. It was originally coined the Magimix, and it took about a decade for the machine to catch on. Since then, home cooks have discovered “wicked things” they can make with one, and a few of these appliance-enthusiasts are gushing about it all to the Chicago Sun Times. [ suntimes.com]

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