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  • A rally to celebrate the California Right to Know GMO labeling initiative and to educate consumers about issues surrounding labeling of genetically engineered foods will take place Wednesday, May 2. Organizers have raised enough signatures to qualify for the California State Ballot in November and will be submitting them in style.
  • Rutabagas are actually related to turnips, originally created by crossing turnips with cabbages. As a hearty root vegetable, rutabagas are often used alongside potatoes, turnips and other roasting vegetables. They have a sweetness similar to sweet potatoes, and are a nice treat to slice up and eat raw, with a flavor close to raw sweet potato.
  • When Sprinkles announced they were going to open up a "Cupcake Automat" (aka the infamous "Cupcake ATM") outside their flagship Beverly Hills store, they also revealed they were going into the ice cream biz.
  • What's going on in the L.A. food scene? Chew on This: Toast to Sotto's anniversary, Arbor Day and Springtime, a guest chef is doing The Charleston, Mess Hall gets the Test Kitchen treatment and more.
  • Gardeners have already been getting their hands dirty with warm-weather veggies and herbs, since we've been in peak spring planting season in Los Angeles lately. At Baldwin Hills' Post & Beam restaurant, the winter crops have just been taken out from the on-site garden, and replace with new seedlings that will feed diners in the coming weeks and months.
  • If you are someone who douses just about any food item with fiery red Sriracha sauce, you may be interested in this confection: Sriracha lollipops.