Sampler Platter: A Korean barbecue taco truck, food-stamp frenzy, the invention of TV dinners
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Here it is: Sampler Platter, the holiday edition.
- Doughboys to reopen on Third St.? Eater LA
- The mysterious butcher of Framingham strikes again: ‘For the sixth week in a row, a pile of [rotting] meat was found on the common.’ Metro West Daily News
- A Korean barbecue taco truck? Yes, you read that right. Pleasure Palate
- How TV dinners were invented: in 1953 when Swanson Co. overstocked and was left with more than half a million pounds of unsold turkey. Consumerist
- Entrepreneur who ‘couldn’t deal with failure’ commits suicide by eating poisonous yew berries. The Argus
- 7-Eleven expands its ‘upscale’ 7-Select label to 180 products to include cookies, beef jerky, kettle-cooked potato chips. Wallet Pop
- Why food writers hate Thanksgiving. Slate
- Anthony Bourdain calls him ‘the Dark Prince of Italian fine dining.’ Pino Luongo writes a book: ‘Dirty Dishes.’ Grub Street
- Americans’ food-stamp use nears all-time high. Washington Post
-- Elina Shatkin