“Do you normally part your hair to the left?”

“I don’t part my hair.”

“Then get your wife to fix it.”

That’s essentially how the interview I did with CNN last Thursday went. I said lots of insightful things about fresh produce and marketing food safety and consumers, all of which the TV folks chose not to use. (the video is available at: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/07/02/ldt.schiavone.failing.fda.cnn).

No worries. I’ll write it up. My stylist and partner said I did good. So she’s taking me to Australia.

After two years of me trying to take Amy to Australia, she takes me. We’re already on various planes, arriving in Wellington, New Zealand for a week beginning July 7. Then it’s of to Melbourne, Australia for a travel writing conference.

So news will be slow and random yet unrelenting as always.

Today, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control upped the number of Salmonella sickies to 943 with at least 130 hospitalizations since mid-April. And the Wall Street Journal cited Glen Nowak, a CDC spokesperson, as saying tomatoes no longer are the leading suspect, though,

"Tomatoes are one of the primary things we are looking at."