What We're Reading: Thursday, Sept. 22
China's Restaurant Smiley System: Eating Based on Emoticons – LA Weekly
Schweddy Balls Leaves Sour Taste in Conservatives' Mouths - Ad Week
What Makes a Taqueria Truly Epic? – YumSugar
First Lady of South Korea is Globalizing Kimchi – Wall Street Journal
Masturbating to PETA Ads to Require Less Imagination – Gawker
Sampling the Tastes of the Civil War – New York Times
U.S. Spending Billions of Dollars to Subsidize Junk Food – LA Times
The Secret Ingredient is Bacon Crack – The Atlantic
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