• College football is big business for New York bars, resulting in fierce competition to be the definitive bar for a given school. [NYP]
• Rachael Ray gave Diddy a diamond cuff for his birthday. [NYP]
• As fast food becomes more acceptable in France, chefs like Paul Bocuse and Alain Ducasse are offering up their own interpretations on the genre. [WSJ]
• Mark Sargeant, Gordon Ramsay’s right-hand man for the past thirteen years, has quit to join another restaurant company. [Bloomberg]
• Hunger groups have too many people volunteering on Thanksgiving and not enough during the rest of the year. [NYT]
• Plenty of New York restaurants still have endangered bluefin tuna on the menu. [NYDN]
• A Queens teen has created Blizzard Dog, an ice cream for canines. [NYT]