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Paula Deen Plans Food for Jonas Brother’s Wedding; Bruce Willis Pushes Sobieski

• Paula Deen created the rehearsal dinner after-party menu for Kevin Jonas’ wedding. [NYP]

• Bruce Willis will start shilling for Poland’s Sobieski Vodka in a deal that finds him owning 3.3% of Belvedere, its parent company. [Yahoo! Finance]

• Kim Kardashian is following in the footsteps of Padma Lakshmi and Paris Hilton by starring in sexually charged ads for Carl’s Jr, but unlike the burger commercials of her predecessors, Kim’s ads shill salads. [Eat Me Daily]

• Mall Santas are reporting more children asking for food for Christmas. [Volunteer TV]

• Taiwan is planning a junk food tax to encourage healthy eating. [Yahoo! News]

• After hitting record highs this year, tea prices are set to stabilize in 2010. [CNN Money]

Ad Hoc at Home is sold out on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble online until next year. [Eat Me Daily]

• Due to frequent fridge trips and constant food shuffling, winter holidays bring more cases of food poisoning as many items don’t have a chance to reach safe temperatures. [The Age]

• A Chinese man has been sentenced to twelve years in jail for killing and eating what may have been the last wild IndoChinese tiger in China. [Reuters]

• American catfish farmers are lobbying the USDA to enforce strict safety rules on Vietnamese catfish, but to do so, they have to reverse their earlier stance that Vietnamese catfish aren’t catfish. [WSJ]

Paula Deen Plans Food for Jonas Brother’s Wedding; Bruce Willis Pushes Sobieski