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Sampler Platter: 7-Eleven makes its own wine, MasterChef cooks endangered eel, 70 cases of brat pizza stolen

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How will two-buck Chuck compete against 7-Eleven’s new wines? How does someone steal 70 cases of pizza? How do you open a bottle of wine with nothing but willpower and your shoe? All this and more in today’s food news roundup.

-- How to open a bottle of wine in France: For those times when you’ve been up all night, you’re drunk and all you want to do is drink another bottle of wine, but you’re in the street, you have no corkscrew and the stores aren’t open yet. Happens all the time. YouTube -- Speaking of which ... 7-Eleven’s making its own wine. Oh, thank heavens. Dallas Observer -- Hotel and nightclub impresario Sam Nazarian slams into ugly financial reality. Could this be part of the reason behind SBE’s recent split with Brent Bolthouse? Wall Street Journal -- Auntie Em’s tops list for best cupcake shop; Sprinkles left out. LAist -- A $47,000 lunch tab from Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. Buzzfeed -- In the ongoing Tavern on the Green saga, the venue hosted the Halloween party from hell, say booted patrons. New York Daily News -- BBC’s ‘MasterChef’ cooks critically endangered eel. Oops. The Telegraph -- It’s cloudy with a chance of record-setting meatballs in New Hampshire. Yahoo! News -- Tasting ecstasy and agony at Le Cordon Bleu in Ottawa. New York Times -- 70 cases of brat pizzas stolen from Wisconsin company. Sheboygan Press -- A preview of the apocalypse: Boston Markets will all run dry. Consumerist

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-- Elina Shatkin

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