— Dunkin' Donuts is getting in on the mobile order, pay, and delivery app model Starbucks pioneered last year. According to a release, the chain is currently testing the app in Portland, Maine and Dallas, Texas where users can order and pay on their phones and also order delivery through a local vendor. In Dallas, delivery is provided by DoorDash. Locations in Washington, Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles will also soon begin testing the app, which incorporates Apple Pay. The company has plans to roll it out into all American markets next year.
— A distillery in Boston is making whiskey out of Sam Adams beer. Boston Harbor Distillery is taking limited-run Sam Adams brews, like Thirteenth Hour, a dark, sour, Belgian-inspired, barrel-aged beer, and distilling them into whiskeys that take on the roasted notes of a dark beer coupled with the smoky notes of American whiskey.
— Icelandic chef Gunnar Gíslason (Dill, Reykjavikis) is heading to New York City early next year to open a restaurant inside Grand Central Station. The Wall Street Journal shares a few more details: The new, still unnamed, restaurant will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner using local ingredients in recipes inspired both by the new Nordic cooking techniques Gíslason popularized at Dill as well as local ingredients and New York City history. The chef is especially excited to take advantage of New York's temperate climate and the relative year-round bounty it promises: "In Iceland, the season for vegetables is only three months," he told the WSJ, "Less if it's a bad summer."
— Watch a sushi chef create a sushi roll out of a McDonald's Big Mac:
— Pittsburg's beloved Primanti Bros. has opened a location in Maryland. Though residents of D.C. have long awaited a location in the nation's capital, the new spot in Hagerstown, Md. — which is about an hour and a half drive North of D.C. — is so far the closest the sandwich purveyors are getting to President Obama and company.
— Flying Delta Airlines out of JFK anytime in the next three months? If you splurge on a first or business class seat, you'll be offered a menu created in partnership with Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group, and crafted by the chef at NYC's Marta and Mailalino, Nick Anderer.
— Right now at Disneyland in Southern California, Star Wars has taken over Tomorrowland. The takeover includes novelty foods like Fighter buckets filled with popcorn, a Chewbacca stein of fresh fruit, a Darth Vader cotton candy helmet, a Han Solo carbonite lunch box, a Galactic Grill serving "light" and "dark" dishes, and a red and black eclair decorated to look like sith lord Darth Maul.
— Finally, the producers behind How to Make Everything are tackling the actual costs behind a traditional Thanksgiving dinner made from scratch. Watch the cranberry harvest, forest foraging, and hunting that goes into this annual feast: