• Sara Lee, following on its plans to split into a domestic food business and an international coffee and tea business, plans to spin off the latter in an IPO in Amsterdam, where the Douwe Egberts coffee business it acquired 25 years ago is based. [Chicago Business]
• Here’s a great solution to the horrors of industrial chicken farming: simply remove the birds’ cerebral cortexes, so they feel nothing! [HuffPo]
• The best move for locavores might just be to position themselves as jobs creators. [Salt/NPR]
• Celebrity food trend alert: bringing one’s own grub to restaurants. A-Rod did it last week, and now Adriana Lima reportedly brought her own salad to Asia de Cuba in Miami. What’s the point? [Page Six/NYP]
• Binge eating is the eating disorder you don’t know very much about (but it wants recognition). [Your Life/USAT]
• Great news for baked potato and buffet lovers: Sizzler is making a comeback, in the Bay Area, anyway. [WSJ]
