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Food trucks have come a long way from the days of hot dogs swimming in tepid, murky water, especially in the gourmet street-food worlds of Los Angeles, New York City and Austin. And nothing's more telling of their climb up the food chain than a pending ABC sitcom, tentatively titled Family Owned -- guess execs liked what they saw in the The Great Food Truck Race, which aired on the Food Network this summer.

Food has certainly taken to the small screen in a big way lately, reaching beyond the food networks and travel channels, beyond stand-and-stir shows (that is, cooking shows) and travelogues. Case in point: Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, the recent sketches on Saturday Night Live, and a new cartoon sitcom on FOX we tipped you off to earlier this week, involving a guy named Bob and his burgers.

As Variety reports, this new food-truck sitcom is still in the development phase, but we do know it will be produced by former King of the Hill staffers Tony Gama-Lobo and Rebecca May, along with Warren Littlefield, and will star comedian Al Madrigal (left), who has appeared on Comedy Central and a couple of shows on CBS. Eater explains the concept as a "multigenerational family comedy" that "centers on a son who takes over the family food-truck business."

Chill Soda is a low glycemic organic soda touted as a healthier alternative to other carbonated drinks.

The drink Chill Soda was featured on ABC's TV show "Shark Tank." It's an organic soda that comes in four flavors: chill guava, chill kola, chill limon and chill pome. It has 85 calories and is sweetened with agave nectar. Chill Soda is based in Sausalito, Calif.

For the last couple of weeks, the Pushing Daisies mobile Pie Hole (a transportable version of the pie shop featured on the show) has been zig-zagging the country giving away free pie. They've already been to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver and Dallas. Over the next two weeks, they'll be visiting Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. For more information on their stops, check out the Pushing Daisies Touch of Wonder tour page.

If they aren't coming to your town, make sure to tune in on October 1st at 8 pm for all that Pushing Daisies pie goodness (there are a few pie recipes on the tour page, if you want to make an pie for the show's premiere).

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Did you know that the Jimmy Kimmel Live web site had a recipes section? It's true!

I can't remember when he has had cooking demonstrations on. I mean, I don't usually watch his show past the monologue and comedy bits (brilliant) because the guests sometimes bore me and the most of the music acts he has don't particularly excite me. But it was interesting to find these recipes on the site. He has stuff up there from Todd English, Rocco DiSpirito, and several recipes from Mario Batali. Note: you actually can click on the recipes even though it looks like they aren't linked.

After the jump is the recipe for DiSpirito's Chocolate-Butterscotch Fondue.

I'm not sure how many of you Slashfoodies are fans of ABC's Lost (new episode tonight at 9pm), but there are some pretty devoted fans out there. As the photo on the right will prove.

It's a cake for the show made by USA Today reader "amypro." Pretty impressive. Not sure if the Oceanic plane is edible or not.

It's not the only Lost-related food items at the link above. Fans of the show made other food products for various Lost parties around the country. Check out the Dharma goods!