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Michael Jackson’s Chef Gives Testimony; Top Chef Vets Opening Everywhere

• Michael Jackson’s former personal chef, Kai Chase, testified yesterday about what she cooked for Jacko and events on the day of his death. [IBT]

• A bunch of Top Chefs are opening restaurants these days, from Hung Huynh’s Catch in New York to Ryan Scott in San Francisco. [Zagat via HuffPo]

• Get your sundaes while you still can: Word on the street is that Friendly’s will file for Chapter 11. [NRN]

• This is cool: An anaerobic digester that runs partly on food waste will supply power to one Minnesota town. [Biomass Magazine]

• The L.A. Times raves about the boring El Bulli movie. But thankfully, it lets us know that “calling the staff of El Bulli ‘foodies’ seems too insignificant and superficial.” Ya think? [LAT]

• A new app called Chef’s Feed details the best dishes in a number of U.S. cities, from the perspective of acclaimed chefs. [HuffPo]

• First came scoop-shaped tortilla chips, now Popeye’s is offering Dip’n Chik’n nuggets. [Zagat]

Vice teaches you how to make poutine. Sure, they bobble the fact that it was actually Russia that invented winter, not the Canucks, but it looks like the recipe still works, husky urine or none. [Vice]

Michael Jackson’s Chef Gives Testimony; Top Chef Vets Opening Everywhere