• Michael Bauer explores how the foods we eat reflect our political leanings. [Between Meals/SF Gate]
• Vermont’s Green Mountain Coffee is competing with local Peet’s to buy Southern California’s Diedrich Coffee. [AP/SJ Mercury News]
• Meet the new guard of San Francisco’s street food vendors. [Mission Loc@l]
• NBC has declined to run a PETA ad about turkey cruelty during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. [Gothamist]
• China has executed two men for their role in last year’s contaminated milk scandal. [NYT]
• Fifty Cent has settled a lawsuit against Taco Bell for using his name without permission in an ad. [NYP]