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Top Chef Takes Home An Emmy; Meet The Foochebags

Top Chef won this year’s Emmy for Outstanding Reality Show competition last night. [Eater]

• L.A.’s latest dismissed Top Chef contestant, Amanda Baumgarten, calls the program, “just a big, drawn-out game show.” [Seattle Pi/TV Guide]

• Foochebag (foodie/douchebag portmanteau) is the newest entry in the food lexicon. [NBC]

• A Jacksonville Winn-Dixie was the site of controversy after selling a Confederate flag cake. [News 13]

• L.A.-based U-Can Food is recalling Malaysian-imported Cocon Grape Candy, due to high levels of lead. [Calorie Lab]

• The sold-out OC Foodie Fest saw over 8,500 attendees on Saturday. [LAist]

• Eighteen Italians have died while searching for mushrooms in the past ten days. [Guardian]

• Seasonal cooking is arriving in the Netherlands and bringing with it a rejuvenation of Dutch cuisine. [WSJ]

Top Chef Takes Home An Emmy; Meet The Foochebags