• Better break out the Ron Jeremy Rum before you read this: The adult actor’s latest movie concerns “a fictional food truck that serves sausages to Hollywood.” Yeah, we can see where this is heading. [Daily Dish/LAT]
• Yea or neigh on horse meat? A group of ranchers and horse owners gathered yesterday in Las Vegas to argue for reviving the animals as a food source. [Denver Post]
• SBE’s flashy sushi spot Katsuya is looking at space in Houston. [Culture Map]
• Chris Paciello (nee Christian Ludwigsen), a former Madonna boy-toy and felon, will go to trail on Monday for his alleged swindling of West Hollywood’s now closed Murano restaurant.[Beverly Hills Courier]
• KABC drops this stunner of a news report: A lot of your food at home comes loaded with sodium. [KABC]
• Joseph Centano’s lamb neck hash with quinoa and a Jidori egg at Lazy Ox gets a nod in this feature calling hash the new black. [N.Y. Times]
• Sacré bleu! Even France has gotten in on the trend toward casual, less expensive dining, with the rise of popular pita joints and “gastro bistrots.” [Vancouver Sun]
• If you never can seem to keep track of what “dunkel”-style beer is, here’s a long explanation. [NYT]
• December was a record month for world food prices, especially sugar, grain, and oilseed. So, might this finally kill the cupcake trend? [Business Week]
• Rising commodity prices didn’t seem to hurt the candy aisle at Family Dollar stores; thanks to increased sales of sweets and other food, profits are up. [Bloomberg]
