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Good Monday morning. Please enjoy the temperate weather, because it’s going to get stupid cold this week. On with what I’m reading:

In case you missed it: The Trenchermen’s Rebecca LaMalfa packed her proverbial knives and left, eliminated from the latest episode of “Top Chef.” [EW]

How are those delightful wax foods at Japanese restaurants created? We find out, from of all people, film director Wim Wenders. [Open Culture]

In Cleveland, you can get Froot Loops on your hot dogs. [Plain-Dealer] Alton Brown ordered it. [Twitter]

Wonuts, the incestuous offspring of waffles and doughnuts, is coming to Water Tower Place. [Crain’s]

Chris Curren, formerly of Blue 13, will head the kitchen of Alpana Singh’s new Michigan Avenue venture, Seven Lions. [Chicago mag]

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