Sampler Platter: swine, staph, Girl Scout cookies, Southwest Airlines

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Thursday food news from around the globe...

• Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck re-opens after a mysterious wave of food poisoning -- and it’s fully booked. Times Online
• Food Network’s ‘Unwrapped’ series is producing a show on the many uses of bacon. Albany Democrat Herald
• Can pigs infect people with antibiotic-resistant staph? New York Times writer Nicholas D. Kristof is worried.
• As if they weren’t addictive enough, Girl Scout cookies are being turned into gourmet desserts. (Chef Chris Johnson of the Beverly Hills Grill turned Sugar-Free Chocolate Chip cookies into crumbs for the crust of a reduced-sugar cheesecake.) Detroit Free Press
• Southwest Airlines may charge for in-flight food. Bloomberg
• Rockland, Maine, will host a parade and festival to celebrate -- what else? -- chocolate! WCSH6

-- Elina Shatkin