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Tila Tequila Pops Into 25 Lusk; Hostess, Butterball and Other Companies Agree to Cut Sodium

• Heh: Tila Tequila showed up at the bar at Twenty Five Lusk last week, in a corset. [Tablehopper]

• Get some free food and meet the Bromberg brothers (of Blue Ribbon fame) at the Stanford Court next week. [SFoodie, Earlier]

• Mission Local shows you how to carve a turkey. [Mission Local]

7x7 shows you how to make SPQR’s pickled cranberries. [7x7]

• Six processed-food companies, including Hostess and Butterball, have agreed to cut sodium levels by 25 percent over five years. [UPI]

• Tallow carvings will decorate military dining halls across the country this Thanksgiving, and other news from the glossy white underbelly of the tallow-sculpture world. [WSJ]

• Turkeys as we know them are actually a kind of breast-heavy Frankenbird that can’t even reproduce naturally. Says one frank turkey scientist, “[They] can’t mount.” [USAT]

• Better step it up, France. If Michelin stars are any indicator, Japan might soon surpass the Gallic nation in culinary accolades. We detect the makings of a really good reality competition here. [Japan RealTime/WSJ]

• China’s top money guy claims speculators and hoarders manipulated commodity prices and caused the country’s spike in food costs. [WSJ]

Tila Tequila Pops Into 25 Lusk; Hostess, Butterball and Other Companies Agree to