Bites Bits: Cronuts, cookbooks, and the rest of the week in brief food news

• Jay Leno on the Cronut trend: 'In New York City, people are paying as much as $100 to have a $5 Cronut delivered to their door. You know what a Cronut is? It's like this trendy new snack in New York. It's a combination of croissant and doughnut. These people are called midiots. They're halfway between moron and idiot'.

• Dubai's School of Culinary & Finishing Arts (SCAFA) will hold an experimental cooking class on Thursday, 10am, to be taught by Ross Clarke, a chef at the development kitchen of The Fat Duck, Heston Blumenthal's UK restaurant with three Michelin stars. For bookings, call 04 379 4044 or email [e-mail].

• Want to go gluten free but don't know where to start? The online shop www.glutenfree-supermarket.ae is a home-grown company where all the products are produced here in the UAE and freshly baked goods are delivered fresh to your door.

• The celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who is dyslexic, has authored nearly 20 cookbooks, but revealed to the Telegraph that he had never completed reading a book until he recently finished Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Game