• Rachael Ray gave Diddy a diamond cuff for his birthday. [NYP]
• A new planting method has lead to an increase in olive oil production, forecasting California as a major producer within the next few years. [AP/Google]
• Hunger groups have too many people volunteering on Thanksgiving and not enough during the rest of the year. [NYT]
• Mark Sargeant, Gordon Ramsay’s right hand man for the past thirteen years, has quit to join another restaurant company. [Bloomberg]
• A woman was killed after she crashed into Subway in Echo Park on Sunset Blvd. early Sunday morning. [KTLA]
• A Rosemead Jack-In-The-Box was robbed at gunpoint yesterday morning. [Pasadena Star News]
• 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]
• It turns out that Bravo’s United Plates of America isn’t the only series with that title: Brian Lerch has been producing a show with the title for a year. [Eater]
