Taco Cid, a Mexican restaurant in South Carolina, has been outfitting its employees in T-shirts printed with the phrase "How to catch an illegal immigrant." The words are placed above the kind of crude box trap one might use to catch vermin, with tacos as the bait. 
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The New Yorker released its annual food issue today and it features a lengthy article on "the Axel Rose of cooking," Craig Thornton, and his underground, Los Angeles supper club, Wolvesmouth.
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Also in the issue, NY Times former food critic Mimi Sheraton embraces a sausage fest. Literally.
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At the edge of Erie Basin's dark grey water, in the mandatory evacuation area of low-lying Red Hook, two men in patched up rain gear fished away the afternoon, with plans to return to their homes nearby before Hurricane Sandy makes landfall and the rain and wind begin to pick up speed.
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Rebecca Harrington, who previously experimented with Liz Taylor's "controlled pig-out" sessions (alternating with dips and Dover sole), recently ate like Marilyn Monroe for 10 days.
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Tokyo's cat cafés sound brilliant, in theory. A bunch of little coffee shops where you can sip a green tea latte and pay to play with the in-house cats. But Gideon Lewis-Kraus investigates further for Wired and finds that cat cafés aren't always warm and fuzzy.
More »Ye Tongxin, a 48-year-old school-bus manager in Nanjing, has been training for 10 years to slice cucumbers with playing cards. His current best is to cut through 12 cucumbers in 42 seconds. If he can manage to cut through 18 in under 60 seconds, he will set a new Guinness World Record. Card throwing may not be new, but Mr. Tongxin's intense dedication to it is pretty extraordinary.
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A strange and beautiful teaser for Next's new Sicilian menu comes to us via Twitter; the menu launches tonight in Chicago. The video is by Christian Seel, with narration by Fabrizia Lanza of the The Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking School.
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