• 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]