• Luxe Hotels plans to renovate and rebrand the Holiday Inn Los Angeles City Center, including a restaurant in the new property, slated for next spring. [Reuters]
• Studying the remains of two notorious man-eating lions, Santa Cruz researchers have found that humans are an acquired taste for the animals and eaten out of need more than taste. [NewScientist]
• Foreign food is ultra-popular in China right now, with over 5,000 Western restaurants in Beijing alone. [ABC News]
• Nonni’s Italian Eatery cooked the world’s biggest meatball, at 222.5 pounds, to break the Guinness Record. [Telegraph UK]
• Nation’s Restaurant News will go bi-weekly next year, rather than its current weekly schedule. [Food Writer’s Diary]
• Padma Lakshmi will appear on 30 Rock on November 12. [Eater National]
• Former Gourmet staffer Francis Lam has been tapped to head Salon’s forthcoming food site. [Eater National]
