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Chicago Is Number One City for Pizza; Nutrition Professor Loses Weight on Junk Food Diet

Travel + Leisure picked Chicago as having the best pizza in the nation. [Stew/Trib]

• A Kansas State nutrition professor lost 27 pounds on a junk food diet. [WGN]

• Wendy’s is introducing new fries topped with sea salt because “people associate it with good, natural things,” according to a rep. [USAT]

• The Journal concludes that Japanese chefs in America pretty much refuse to use our water, preferring instead to import bottles from the Land of the Rising Sun. [WSJ/Japan Real Time]

• Is there anything that isn’t better after it’s barbecued? John T. Edge explores the world of smoked turkeys. [NYT]

• A food-safety advocate in China was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for “inciting social disorder.” [AP]

Chicago Is Number One City for Pizza; Nutrition Professor Loses Weight on Junk