• Heh: Tila Tequila showed up at the bar at Twenty Five Lusk last week, in a corset. [Tablehopper]
• Get some free food and meet the Bromberg brothers (of Blue Ribbon fame) at the Stanford Court next week. [SFoodie, Earlier]
• Mission Local shows you how to carve a turkey. [Mission Local]
• 7x7 shows you how to make SPQR’s pickled cranberries. [7x7]
• Six processed-food companies, including Hostess and Butterball, have agreed to cut sodium levels by 25 percent over five years. [UPI]
• Tallow carvings will decorate military dining halls across the country this Thanksgiving, and other news from the glossy white underbelly of the tallow-sculpture world. [WSJ]
• Turkeys as we know them are actually a kind of breast-heavy Frankenbird that can’t even reproduce naturally. Says one frank turkey scientist, “[They] can’t mount.” [USAT]
• Better step it up, France. If Michelin stars are any indicator, Japan might soon surpass the Gallic nation in culinary accolades. We detect the makings of a really good reality competition here. [Japan RealTime/WSJ]
• China’s top money guy claims speculators and hoarders manipulated commodity prices and caused the country’s spike in food costs. [WSJ]