Sampler Platter: celeb lunch boxes, beer can chicken & bacon-draped hens

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News you probably can’t use, but it’s tasty nonetheless...

• World of Warcraft restaurant opens in China. Wired
• Gothamist checks out the celeb-designed lunchboxes at this year’s Lunchbox Auction, a charity event that benefits the Food Bank for New York City and the Lunchbox Fund of South Africa.
• Hiro’s West LA Food Blog shows you how to cook beer can chicken.
• NYC hot dog vendor who was ticketed for handling wieners in an unsanitary manner will have his day in court. NY Post
• Gates Foundation donates $1.4 million to food banks in Pacific Northwest. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• The Philadelphia Inquirer picks its favorite cookbooks.
• Enjoy the Royal Bacon Society’s bacon wordle.
• When you can’t bother with a turducken, try a bacon-draped Cornish hen. MSNBC
• Man who was convicted of killing and cooking his wife blames it on the devil weed. Detroit Free Press

--Elina Shatkin