U.S. President Obama went to another burger shop in Washington for lunch today, ordering up a cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, jalapeno peppers, and mustard – not the fancy Dijon mustard. He also ordered a cheeseburger for Brian Williams, anchor for NBC. The network was filming a day-in-the-life program at the White House.

Dawn Drzal, who has written about food, travel and fiction for The Times and other publication, writes in this book review set to appear Sunday that in 1950, only 9 percent of American homes had a television set, and the target food audience was “the hausfrau hankering to keep hubby happy with her scullery art,” as one male reviewer put it.

Barbara Freeman was looking after their six-month-old daughter instead of dining with her husband of 18 months when he collapsed in a restaurant and later died after eating a tomato canape. Coroner Murray Jamiesen yesterday confirmed the cause of Mr Freeman's death as an anaphylactic reaction.

Seven more deer sampled in Hampshire County test positive for Chronic Wasting Disease.   Since it was first discovered in a road-killed deer near Slanesville in 2005, the DNR has been aggressively targeting the dangerous virus.  To date, 45 deer taken from the containment zone have tested positive.