Sampler Platter: Carnegie Deli, ancient chocolate & super snow

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Food bites for a mournful Wednesday...

• Milton Parker, owner of New York’s iconic Carnegie Deli, dies. AOL Food
• Earliest evidence of chocolate in the U.S. found in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, from 1,000 years ago. KTAR
• To Live & Eat in L.A. reports that veggie and vegan restaurant Doomie’s in Chinatown is closed.
• Snow, the unlikeliest superfood. And by superfood the writer means ‘naturally filtered and chilled drinking water.’ Hype machine beats itself to death. The Telegraph
• Fancy restaurants stop playing hard to get. N.Y. Times
• How well does ‘pay what you want’ work in global economic recession? This London restaurateur is about to find out. MSNBC

— Elina Shatkin