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Food FYI: Man tries to eat 1,050-bacon-strip Whopper

By Betty HallockDeputy Food Editor 

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WHOPPER WITH BACON

Tokyo-based odd-news blog RocketNews24 records ‘Mr. Sato’ capitalizing on Burger King Japan’s 15-bacon-strips-for-100-yen promotion by eating a Whopper with 1,050 bacon strips.

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Epicurious interviews Spotted Pig chef April Bloomfield and throws in a few recipes from her newly published book, ‘A Girl and her Pig.’

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Slanted Door chef-owner Charles Phan has tips on clay cookware over at Find. Eat. Drink. (He studied pottery. Who knew.)

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-- Betty Hallock

Video: www.rocketnews24.com.

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.

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