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Food FYI: Snacks at Facebook’s hackathon

By Betty Hallock
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FACEBOOK FUN FACT

What do Facebook employees eat at an all-night hackathon (its regular software-coding party)? Egg rolls and other Chinese food from the company’s favorite restaurant Jing Jing in Palo Alto. [Los Angeles Times]

5 FOOD FESTS IN MEXICO

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Looking for a corn-and-tortilla fair worth traveling for? Here’s one in the Mexico City borough of Xochimilco, plus a vanilla festival in Veracruz, a 127-year-old ice cream festival, an apple fair and Three Kings festival. [Saveur]

CHARLES PHAN CHATS

Charles Phan, chef-owner of the Slanted Door in San Francisco and author of the just published “Vietnamese Home Cooking,” discusses his culinary roots, cooking for his family and why he’s opening a Cajun bar. [Epicurious]

BIG PIGS IN TINY CRATES

Pork-buying food companies and humans rights groups are pushing farmers to end the practice of raising pigs in crates only slightly larger than the animals themselves. [New York Times]

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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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