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Who Makes Those Trader Joe’s Products?; Giada Hooked Up With John Mayer?

• Some speculation about which name-brand companies make various Trader Joe’s-brand products. Tip: their white chocolate chips taste better than Ghirardelli’s. [CHOW]

• Meat cutters at Marin Sun Farms’ outlet in Dogpatch staged a walkout after a disagreement with management. [SFoodie]

• Santa Rosa goes crazy for In-N-Out, creating a whole mess of traffic troubles. [Press Democrat]

Locanda da Eva in Berkeley completed their weekend spruce-up. The new wall color? Burnt caramel. [Eater, Earlier]

• Both Giada de Laurentiis and John Mayer are denying rumors of an alleged affair; the Food Network star is “heartbroken,” while a rep for Mayer calls the claims “ridiculous.” [CBS News]

• The first meal served to world leaders attending the G-20 summit in Seoul will not be Korean food, but rather “a simple Western-style, three-course meal,” an organizer says. But hey, the steaks will come from persimmon-fed cows. [Korea Real Time/WSJ]

• Rising food costs are to blame for further inflation spikes in both China and Hungary. [International Business Times, Bloomberg]

• As if being stranded on the Carnival cruise ship Splendor weren’t bad enough, everyone onboard is being forced to eat Spam, canned crab meat and Pop-Tarts while they away rescuer tugboats. [USAT

Who Makes Those Trader Joe’s Products?; Giada Hooked Up With John Mayer?