Hey Ladies: Burger King Japan has Spam burgers, just for you!What Japanese women want, Japanese women get - Burger King introduces Spam, yes Spam, burgers in Japan Category: News - 17-06-2011Time French restaurant hands back Michelin star to bring in the dinersThe only Michelin-rated restaurant in the southern city of Nimes has handed back its star to become a humble brasserie, in the hope of enticing back people put off by the higher prices that come with the accolade. Category: News - 21-06-2011Telegraph A steak lunch with Warren Buffett sells for $2.63 million on eBay!Warren Buffett’s annual charity lunch auction raised a record $2.63 million on the final day of the weeklong contest after the bidder who’d already won offered more cash to set the mark.
Category: News - 11-06-2011Bloomberg Most priciest meals in New York: 1. Del Posto $1,269 2. Per Se $1,023 3. Daniel $ 888Only a naif would figure the cost of a meal at one of New York’s top restaurants based on the menu price. That’s just a tease. What follows is a real-world guide to prix-fixe dining around town for two. The restaurants will be familiar. The prices won’t. Because if you’re plunging into a four-hour meal, you’re probably not dining alone. And if you’re taking out ... Category: News - 15-06-2011Bloomberg Ferran Adria to create products for PepsiCoThough world renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adrià will be shuttering his legendary restaurant El Bulli this month, regular folks will be able to sample his creative genius at a fraction of the price and the wait now that he's teamed up with PepsiCo.
Category: News - 17-06-2011Independent Densuke watermelon, a bargain at $ 4,000?!A prized Japanese watermelon fetched nearly $4,000 on Monday at an auction in Sapporo. Yes, $4,000.
Category: News - 14-06-2011Wall Street Journal 2 for 1 at French Michelin starred restaurants during "Tous au restaurant" week in September 2011Michelin-starred and other gourmet eateries across France will slash prices for a week in September in a campaign to bring in a less well-heeled clientele and rid "haute cuisine" of its stuffy, pretentious image. Category: News - 14-06-2011Reuters English wines are sparkling!Good soil, good grapes and good producers – no wonder the French are a little worried about the progress of English wines. Category: News - 19-06-2011Guardian Welsh chef attacked kitchen worker after critic AA Gill called his food 'disgusting'A chef in Wales who attacked a member of his kitchen brigade after AA Gill described his food as "disgusting" has blamed long working hours for his violent outburst. Charlie McCubbin, chef-proprietor of the River Café near Hay-on-Wye, Powys, flew into a rage after the ...... Category: News - 16-08-2011Caterersearch Economic gloom weighs on fine wine auctionsGlobal economic woes dented sales of fine wines at auctions in Hong Kong, New York and London, but some lots fetched record prices or exceeded presale estimates. Fears of a Greek default roiling the world's markets and stubbornly high U.S. unemployment rates impacted the auctions. Unlike last season ....... Category: News - 14-09-2011Reuters 'Modernist Cuisine' tome gets first public photo exhibit in Hong KongIn one image, melted, glazed butter drips lasciviously off of garden-fresh beets and radishes. In another, a series of shots freeze-frame the explosion of a single popcorn kernel.These are some of the photos from the magnum opus Modernist Cuisine - also referred to in the gastro-world as the ....... Category: News - 03-08-2011Independent Jamie Oliver and Woods' Silver Fleet (Thames cruises) have joined forcesFrom 16 August 2011 Woods’ Silver Fleet– including its flagship vessel the Silver Sturgeon– will serve Jamie Oliver’s menus on its Thames cruises. Oliver said that his event catering company will use British produce to create international menus, with on-deck barbecues. Category: News - 04-08-2011Citmagazine Washington DC restaurant has a 2-page reservation contractEating dinner at high-end restaurants these days is getting more and more complicated -- first Grant Achatz's Next restaurant decided to forego reservations in favor of tickets and now RJ Cooper's Rogue 24 mandates that diners sign a two-page contract prior to eating. Eater DC has the ...... Category: News - 15-08-2011Huffington Post Champagne Jacquart seeks best young UK sommelier and chef duoChampagne Jacquart is calling for entries to its Rising Stars Trophy competition to find the finest young chef and sommelier duo in the UK. The 2011 competition is open to teams comprised of young sommeliers and chefs, under the age of 35, and .... Category: News - 20-06-2011Harpers Marmite could be back on Danish shelves in 3 monthsMarmite, recently withdrawn from the Danish market after it became apparent the fortified, yeast breakfast spread did not possess a fortified food authorisation under the Scandinavian country’s strict laws, could be back on-market in three months, Danish authorities have said. Category: News - 21-06-2011Nutra Street food: the latest rageThere's a revolution happening in British food, and it's happening on the street. Right now some of the most exciting food is being served out of trailers, carts and vintage vans. In 21st-century Britain, we like the idea that the trappings of a dining room are negotiable. Which is why ..... Category: News - 19-06-2011Guardian (OFM) Top critic Jonathan Gold compares Noma and Alinea in a head-to-head reviewThat's why we were excited when we heard Gold was reviewing two of the most famous, highly regarded restaurants
in the Western Hemisphere for this month's Wall Street Journal Magazine. Gold's idea was to compare Copenhagen's
Noma, two-year winner in the San Pellegrino Top 50 Restaurants in the World list, with Chicago's pioneering Alinea,
often called the best restaurant in America. Category: News - 22-06-2011Huffington Post Roganic - The country comes to townSimon Rogan who moved to the picturesque village of Cartmel in Cumbria back in 2002 to set up the now renowned Michelin starred restaurant with rooms, L’Enclume, is back in the smoke to launch brand new and semi eponymously named venture, Roganic near Marylebone High Street. Category: News - 22-06-2011The Handbook World's most expensive cooking pot on sale for mere GBP 380,000The Zhuo Zhan department store in Changchun, the capital of China's Jilin Province, has put this delectable product on sale - but it will set you back a fair old whack. At 3.8million Yuan (£380,000), it's something a footballer might buy for their wife, or girlfriend (or both).
Category: News - 22-06-2011Metro Vintage Publishing has released the first e-books from Nigella LawsonVintage Publishing has released the first e-books from Nigella Lawson, with her Kitchen and Nigella Express books now available in digital format.
Category: News - 23-06-2011READ MORE Russia: the Big Mac of fast foodWhen McDonald’s opened its first Russian restaurant in Moscow’s Pushkin Square in 1990, you would have thought they were giving out the hamburgers for free. Despite frigid February temperatures, Muscovites happily waited in line 10 hours to get a taste of their first Big Mac. Category: News - 24-06-2011Financial Times Mark Hix wants to extend his Lyme Regis (Hix Oyster & Fish House) restaurantMARK Hix’s Lyme Regis restaurant could become one of the town’s most important contemporary buildings under new proposals. Architect Stuart Case said the iconic glass and timber building in Lister Gardens would be further enhanced by a new outside terrace. Category: News - 24-06-2011Bridport News Starbucks puts calories on board in UKStarbucks, the coffee chain, has started to test putting calories on menu board in its British shops, becoming the latest fast food chain to provide nutritional information to customers. Category: News - 24-06-2011Telegraph Lancaster House becomes pop-up restaurant to promote best of British foodNext month members of the public will have a unique opportunity to dine in the opulent Georgian mansion on The Mall in London when its grand hallway is turned into a pop-up restaurant. Jamie Grainger-Smith, who set up the award-winning Fifteen restaurant with .....
Category: News - 24-06-2011Telegraph Rick Stein’s Seafood Restaurant wins West of England Business of the Year AwardRick and Jill Stein’s The Seafood Restaurant in Cornwall has been recognised as the West of England Business of the Year 2011, in the category of businesses with less than £25m turnover. The 23rd annual awards are organised by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) in conjunction with ITV West and Beacon Southwest and were held in Bristol last Thursday.
Category: News - 27-06-2011Beyond the pasty (blog) The future of gastronomy: predictions by Rene Redzepi, Brett Graham, Elena ArzakTo find out what to expect on the menu in the near future, T&I surveyed some of the world's leading chefs at the recent S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants awards in London. Who better to explain the next big trends than the people who create them?
Category: News - 27-06-2011The Australian Where to eat in London right now (top 5) by Hollywood ReporterLondon's power restaurant scene has five new eateries challenging some of the city's most established haunts. Sure, you can still often find Independent Talent Group chairman Duncan Heath, arguably the most powerful agent in the U.K. (clients include Michael Caine, Steve Coogan and Joe Wright), at his regular table at ... Category: News - 28-06-2011Hollywood Reporter The Independent's top 10 of best children's cookbooksIt's never too early to learn your way around a kitchen. If you're nurturing a budding Jamie or Nigella, here's where to find the best child-friendly recipes. Category: News - 28-06-2011Independent London's Best Street Food: Where to eat on the streetA new set of food pioneers are taking quality food out of the restaurant and onto the street - offering prime ingredients at low prices. Marina O’Loughlin picks her favourite London street food spots.
Category: News - 29-06-2011Metro Top UK chefs host charity pop-up in EdinburghThree of the country’s top culinary talents will rally together at this year’s Taste of Edinburgh, in partnership with AEG, to host an Action Against Hunger pop-up charity restaurant from 1-3 July. TV favourite .... Category: News - 29-06-2011Scotland Food & Drink UK Government invests £670,000 trying to create strawberry resistant to climate changeScientists are trying to create new types of strawberries which are resistant to climate change to ensure the fruit stays at the top of Britain's summer menu. Consumer demand for fresh strawberries in the UK has ....
Category: News - 29-06-2011Daily Mail Dutch vote to ban ritual animal slaughterThe Dutch parliament voted on Tuesday to ban ritual slaughter of animals, a move strongly opposed by the country’s Muslim and Jewish minorities, but left a loophole that might let religious butchering continue. The bill by the small Animal Rights Party, the first .... Category: News - 29-06-2011Reuters Seoul restaurant pays $23,600 for giant bluefin tuna!Fishermen off of Jeju Island caught a giant tuna earlier this week – and pictures of its arrival at a Seoul restaurant on Tuesday were splashed in newspapers and web sites around the world. The tuna weighed .... Category: News - 30-06-2011Wall Street Journal Simon Rogan talks about his new 2-year pop-up restaurant RoganicThe pop-up restaurant scene is never short of surprises; it's the nature of the beast. But perhaps the biggest surprise of all was the news that established operator Simon Rogan, of Cumbria's Michelin-starred L'Enclume, is to join the party with .... Category: News - 30-06-2011Caterersearch.com Search for a generic name with fizz for English sparkling wineItaly has prosecco, Spain has cava but British producers have nothing more compelling than 'English sparkling wine'.
British wine markers are now fighting over a generic name which could be used to attact shoppers, restaurateurs and the international wine industry. Category: News - 04-07-2011Telegraph Ashley Cole and Jay-Z to open London restaurantChelsea star Ashley Cole may have 99 problems but teaming up with Jay Z ain't one. The Stamford Bridge left-back met with the rap superstar in New York to plan their joint-venture of opening a new restaurant in London next year.
Cole is not the first England international to open an eaterie with fellow defender .... Category: News - 04-07-2011Mail Online New guide points the way to London's best oystersN partnership with publishers Graffeg, the Shellfish Association of Great Britain (SAGB) is set to produce the “definitive” guide to where to buy and eat oysters throughout London.
The guide includes listings for the finest restaurants, bars and markets with descriptions, sample dishes and contact information and will be published on ..... Category: News - 04-07-2011fishnewseu.com Michelin-starred chef Pierre Gagnaire to open restaurant at the new Waldorf Astoria hotel BerlinFrench chef Pierre Gagnaire is to open a restaurant in Berlin at the city's forthcoming Waldorf Astoria hotel, part of Hilton Worldwide's luxury hotel portfolio.
The multi-Michelin-starred chef, who already operates restaurants around the globe, including Paris, London and Tokyo, will open a ..... Category: News - 04-07-2011caterersearch.com The sandwich with a 14-day shelf life!Most sandwiches last barely 12 hours, with many leading chains boasting that their products are made on the day of purchase.
However, Booker, one the country's leading wholesalers which supplies thousands of corner shops and small convenience stores, has developed a new range ..... Category: News - 05-07-2011Telegraph Gauthier in London first Michelin restaurant in UK to add calorie counts to its menusA Soho restaurant has become the first Michelin-starred establishment in Britain to add calorie counts to its menus. Gauthier, where celebrities Hugh Grant, Kate Moss and Lily Allen have dined, now publishes the number .... Category: News - 05-07-2011Evening Standard World's largest hamburger weighs a record-breaking 777 poundsAs a country, the U.S. is known for its big portion sizes in restaurants. But ambitious grillers took that one stage further over the weekend after setting a new world record for the largest commercially available hamburger. The massive 777lb burger - which included a 110lb bun, ..... Category: News - 05-07-2011Mail Online World's hottest pizza will feature a British chilliThe man behind the world’s hottest chilli and the world’s hottest curry will soon be responsible for the world’s hottest pizza! Nick Woods, owner of Fire Foods in Grantham, made headlines around the world last year when he grew the world’s hottest chilli in his Grantham garden. Earlier this year his chilli was ..... Category: News - 15-07-2011Gantham Journal 100 most powerful people in the UK hospitality industryThe definitive guide to the top players in the UK hospitality industry whose actions are having the greatest impact in 2011. Category: News - 05-07-2011caterersearch.com The pressure cooker makes a comebackA new generation of chefs, such as Grant van Gameren of The Black Hoof in Toronto and Chicago’s Grant Achatz of Alinea, one of a handful of Michelin three-star restaurants in North America, has already learned that .... Category: News - 06-07-2011Globe and Mail McDonalds US is testing the .... English Pub Burger!On the heels of yet another devastating last-place finish among burger chains, McDonald's may be trying to spice up their gray meat by going even grayer — or rather, greyer — with the English Pub Burger it's testing in at least one Illinois town. Category: News - 06-07-2011Consumerist French three star chef Yannick Alléno (Le Meurice) to open two outlets in BeirutFrench Michelin-star chef Yannick Alléno will open his first restaurants in Beirut, Lebanon in October this year. The two concepts will be .... Category: News - 07-07-2011Hotelier Bankruptcy for NYC eatery selling $175 burgersThe Wall Street Burger Shoppe made international headlines several years ago when it put a $175 burger on its menu. Today, the 112-seat joint in the financial district is closed, filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, just three years after .... Category: News - 07-07-2011Crain's New York Grant Achatz unveils Next restaurant's new theme and menuChef Grant Achatz's Next restaurant, which changes cuisine roughly every three months, is just about ready for its second iteration. After the first theme of Escoffier's Paris, 1906 (and seats selling for up to $3000 on Craigslist), the restaurant is saying au revoir to France and going ..... Category: News - 07-07-2011Huffington Post Watch the trailer for the upcoming elBulli documentaryHere's the trailer for El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, a documentary on Ferran Adrià's renowned Spanish restaurant. Get ready for some subtitles, extreme precision plating and people intently watching Adrià taste things. ElBulli the restaurant has but a few .... Category: News - 07-07-2011Eater No chopsticks! How to eat sushi.So, how do you eat sushi, the quintessential Japanese delicacy of vinegared rice topped with raw fish and other ingredients? With your fingers? With chopsticks? Dipped into soy sauce; daubed with wasabi? One mouthful or two? The only certainty, it seems, is ..... Category: News - 08-07-2011CNN US obesity rates rise 90%. Mississippi still the 'fattest' state.Obesity rates climbed at least 90 percent in 17 states from 1995 to last year, gains that have a direct bearing on U.S. health spending, according to a report. Nine of the 10 states with the highest obesity rates are in the U.S. South, led by Mississippi at ..... Category: News - 08-07-2011Bloomberg Aiden Byrne to open new restaurantCELEBRITY chef Aiden Byrne is to open a new restaurant in Merseyside. The Great British Menu finalist, who was the youngest chef ever to win a Michelin star, said he is “coming home” with the new restaurant, which will be called The British Grill. It will open at the .... Category: News - 11-07-2011Liverpool Dialy Post Squeeze & Stir - canned food giant Heinz launches soup in a tubeeinz has broken with more than 100 years of tradition to launch its first instant soup. Its Squeeze and Stir is a puree that the food giant hopes will strengthen its grip on the £532million-a-year soup market. Heinz accounts for ..... Category: News - 11-07-2011Mirror Forest dining: Why going for a picnic is back in fashionOn a hot day, what could be more awe-inspiring than eating under the dappled shade of an old oak forest or secret beech canopy? Foraging in the shade of a secret forest location is an awe-inspiring trend that could .... Category: News - 12-07-2011Metro Tom Aikens closes Michelin starred flagship restaurant for three-month refurbishmentTom Aikens has shut his Michelin-starred flagship restaurant in London's Chelsea for a refurbishment. Restaurant Tom Aikens will be closed for three months and will reopen in ..... Category: News - 12-07-2011Caterersearch Wolfgang Puck's new restaurant 'CUT at 45 Park Lane' reveals what's on the menuThis September, world-renowned chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck will make his restaurant debut in Europe when he opens CUT at 45 Park Lane. Located in Dorchester Collection’s new Mayfair hotel, CUT at 45 Park Lane will mirror the award-winning and hugely popular original CUT in Beverly Hills offering outstanding ..... Category: News - 12-07-2011Sauce Communications Delia Smith: 70s pub grub beats today's posh restaurantsDelia Smith has delivered a scorching verdict on modern restaurants and pubs, saying that cooking in the 1970s was better. The best-selling author and television cook was renewing her attack on celebrity chefs for championing ..... Category: News - 13-07-2011Daily Mail Next restaurant's (Grant Achatz) second 3-month stint sells out in 90 minutesNext restaurant's second dining season sold out its three-month stint in 90 minutes Tuesday, despite a previous attempt that ended in disaster. The restaurant, the second by Alinea chef Grant Achatz, put 2,000 of its tables on sale at 4:30 p.m. At the peak, roughly ..... Category: News - 13-07-2011Chicago Business Kraft sneaks cauliflower into its Mac & CheeseIt looks like Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, and Kraft says it tastes just like the original. But a new ingredient is lurking inside this version of the American family dinner staple - cauliflower. Don't tell the kids! Kraft Foods Inc. is the latest large food manufacturer to try ..... Category: News - 13-07-2011Forbes McDonald's argues it is a supermarket rather than restaurant in RussiaUS fast food chain McDonald's has persuaded the Russian authorities that its outlets are supermarkets rather than restaurants in a landmark lawsuit that blocked an attempt by the Russian taxman to almost double its tax bill. Category: News - 13-07-2011Telegraph Restaurant bans kids, wins fanshe owner of a small restaurant outside Pittsburgh is banning children under the age of 6, saying they regularly disrupted other customers' meals.
The move has touched a nerve and led to television and radio interviews from as far away as ...... Category: News - 14-07-2011Wall Street Journal Starbucks introduces 'bistro boxes' for lunchThe coffee chain announced Tuesday a dedicated iced-coffee blend, a caramel-flavored Via designed for iced beverages and a number of lunch, snack or even light-dinner options. Starbucks is introducing a line of "bistro boxes," in snack and entree sizes, priced from $4.95 to $6.95 and all under ..... Category: News - 14-07-2011Chicago Tribune Have you packed the Holiday Fat Map?Where do we pile on the most weight when travelling abroad on holiday? No prizes for guessing - it's America. Category: News - 04-08-2011Telegrpah Smartphones help world's winemakers foil fraudstersor Charles Pillitteri, the fight against fraudsters began when he discovered fake bottles of his Canadian ice wine in Taiwan in 1998. He tried everything to safeguard his product from counterfeiting, from 22-carat gold to invisible ink, only to realise that ..... Category: News - 15-07-2011Independent America's Top 10 healthiest fast food restaurantsWe surveyed the nation’s 100 largest fast food chains, as defined by the number of locations, and found that many are creating menus that look more and more like what we’d cook ourselves (if we had the time)—from nutritious ..... Category: News - 15-07-2011Health.com First class passengers of Etihad Airways to get their own onboard private chefPassengers traveling in Etihad Airways first-class section will get their own personalized chefs onboard in an in-flight dining program designed to be a "five-star restaurant" in the sky. The national carrier of the United Arab Emirates plans to launch its new first-class menu on ..... Category: News - 16-07-2011Independent The Culinary Art - chefs' tattoosWhile tattoos are more fashionable than ever, it’s fairly unusual for a profession as a whole to get tattoos illustrating what they do – there aren’t many bankers with pound signs inked along their arms, nor many plumbers decorated with wrenches. Chefs, however, do get tattooed with their tools and favourite ..... Category: News - 16-07-2011Financial Times Yorkshire peas seal the dealTHE UK’s first fully farmer-owned brand of fine peas has signed a major deal with national supermarket Tesco. The contract will initially put the Yorkshire Peas Conmpany brand of frozen peas into 165 stores across the North of England. The brand is owned by Swaythorpe Growers, a consortium of ...... Category: News - 17-07-2011Driffield Times The Dorchester and Coworth Park introduce new Town & Country getawaysGuests can now combine a stay at both Dorchester Collection 's iconic London hotel, The Dorchester, and its new country house hotel and spa in Ascot, Coworth Park, for the ultimate English city and country experience with the new "Town & Country" offering. This includes ..... Category: News - 17-07-2011Elite Traveller Brits eat 141m packets of biscuitsCrumbs! Britons munched their way through 141 million packets of biscuits last year - a rate of 376 a minute - new research shows. A study by supermarket Sainsbury's revealed that digestives are the nation's favourite, with almost ..... Category: News - 18-07-2011Belfast Telegraph The Slayer: the $26,000 espresso machineThe Slayer. No, it’s not a heavy metal band. The $26,000 Slayer espresso machine is known as the Ferrari of the coffee world -- and for coffee geeks like Keith Reay, it’s java nirvana. Reay, the owner of the Crows Nest micro coffee roaster and espresso bar, Bean Drinking, was only the seventh person in ....... Category: News - 18-07-2011CNN Whole Foods takes home of fried Mars barWhole Foods Market, the US "natural foods" giant is headed for Glasgow, home of the deep fried Mars Bar. The 23,000sq ft outlet in Gifnock, an upmarket suburb south of the Scottish city, will be the chain's first store outside London and the first to open since the launch of ....... Category: News - 18-07-2011Telegraph Gordon Ramsay to launch new restaurant and bar called Bread Street KitchenGordon Ramsay Holdings has revealed that it is launching a new restaurant and bar called Bread Street Kitchen in the city of London this September. Opening at the One New Change development in London, the venture will offer an informal approach to dining. Unique features will include a .... Category: News - 18-07-2011Eat Out Magazine Thisfish: a new tracking system that traces seafood back to the fisherman who caught itEver wonder where that lobster on your plate came from? Ever wonder when, how and by whom it was caught? Thisfish is a new internet tracking system that allows seafood lovers to trace their dinner back to the fishermen who caught it. Category: News - 18-07-2011Singularity Hub Celebrating 75 years of the WienermobileDriving cross-country in small-bus-size hot dog is kind of a big deal. Between 1,000 and 1,500 college seniors apply for the 12 posts piloting Oscar Mayer’s six Wienermobiles. Hopefuls have been applying for the position since 1988. “The lucky dogs who cut the mustard are known as ..... Category: News - 19-07-2011CNN 10 expensive chef lawsuitsNews broke recently of a hefty $25 million lawsuit being filed by a former pastry chef at The Oak Room at The Plaza in New York City against Chef Eric Hara for some particularly nasty sexual harassment allegations. But sexual misconduct isn't the only issue that gets many chefs in legal trouble. Category: News - 19-07-2011Daily Meal Brooklyn restaurant protested for serving foie gras doughnuts"Birds should not have to suffer for donuts." So argues vegan blogger Annie Hartnett, who has penned a petition protesting a menu offering at Brooklyn's Do or Dine restaurant: the foie gras doughnut, a high-end dessert running .... Category: News - 19-07-2011Gawker Xtreme Eating Awards 2011Tuesday the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) announced the winners of its Xtreme Eating Awards, given to what it says are the most unhealthy offerings on restaurant menus in 2011. Category: News - 20-07-2011Food Safetey News Top 10 of US cities that spend the most on fast foodThey say that apple pie is the quintessential image of America, but if you wanted to take that image further, you could say that nothing is as American as the rectangular apple pie sold in little cardboard boxes at McDonald's. America loves fast food. Fast food has become so pervasive in the U.S. that ..... Category: News - 20-07-2011Money Bundle French outrage as German food fair bans foie grasA high-level diplomatic spat has broken out between France and Germany, but this time it is not about saving the euro or European integration. Instead, it is foie gras that is causing the fallout. Angry missives have flown between Paris and Berlin after the decision by organisers of a leading German ..... Category: News - 20-07-2011Guardian Asian wine buyers look online for Lafite and LatourAs Hong Kong’s glitzy hotels play host to ever more wine auctions, with furious paddle-waving and Asian bidders showered with samples of expensive bottles, a new battle for sales is taking place online. Anonymous bidders, identified by screen names like ..... Category: News - 20-07-2011Wall Street Journal McDonald's plans its largest ever restaurant for Olympics siteThe company, which is a global partner of the International Olympic Committee, plans to open a two-storey, 3,000 square metre, diner. It will be one of four McDonald's restaurants on the Olympic site. Category: News - 20-07-2011MarketingWeek The world’s first gourmet frozen food restaurant is “popping up” next month in LondonThe world’s first gourmet frozen food restaurant featuring the signature dishes of top chefs is “popping up” next month. N-Ice will showcase dishes from Great British Menu’s Atul Kochhar, Something for the Weekend’s Simon Rimmer and Michelin-starred Galton Blackiston from ..... Category: News - 20-07-2011Morning Advertiser Can Bluefin tuna farms work?Scrawled on the white board hung behind the bar at Noshi Sushi in Los Angeles, the word "otoro" (fatty tuna) beckons seafood lovers. For the connoisseur, this is the main attraction, the filet mignon of sushi. Category: News - 21-07-2011LA Times World's 50 most delicious foodsSome foods you eat to stay alive, others you eat because not to would be a crime. Here are those foods worth traveling the world to gorge on. Category: News - 21-07-2011CNN Turf war in Burgundy and BeaujolaisTHE vintners of Beaujolais Nouveau may have acquired global fame but they were always viewed as tacky upstarts among their deeply conservative neighbours from Burgundy. Now in the ancient vineyards of central France, Beaujolais is facing exclusion from the Burgundy region in a move likely ...... Category: News - 21-07-2011The Australian Fish and chip monger solves soggy fries dilemma with dry vinegarAny chip shop worth its salt knows that a fry is judged by its taste and crispiness. But it's impossible to maintain the 'crisp' integrity when chips, or fries, are doused in a steady stream of vinegar by heavy-handed acid-lovers. It was a quandary that British chip shop owner Lefteris Eleftheriou decided to ...... Category: News - 21-07-2011Independent Japanese department store to sell a New Year's boxed meal set for $229,000Takashimaya Co. will start selling what could be the most expensive boxed meal ever. The upscale Japanese department store’s New Year’s meal set, known as ..... Category: News - 22-07-2011Wall Street Journal Move over Masala, Jalfrezi is now Britain's favourite curryFor years, the status of chicken tikka masala as the nation's favourite dish has been as unpalatable to food critics as its timid flavour and curiously orange hue. But now it seems that our taste in curries has finally moved on. Category: News - 22-07-2011Telegraph Rene Redzepi to appear in the final of MasterChef AustraliaIn another coup for Channel 10's sizzling cooking series, Rene Redzepi of Copenhagen's acclaimed Noma restaurant has slipped into the MasterChef kitchen for a starring role in this year's grand finale. The 33-year-old is understood to have ..... Category: News - 22-07-2011Daily Telegraph Trouble at London's Borough MarketNot everything’s peachy in London’s foodie heaven. Strained relations between the traders and management are threatening this colourful food market. Category: News - 23-07-2011Financial Times The perfect piece of toast: 216 seconds is the optimum timeScientists today revealed the mathematical formula for a perfect slice of toast, showing that it is best cooked for exactly 216 seconds. A team of researchers carried out a ...... Category: News - 23-07-2011Daily Mail Tastier bacon on the way thanks to the EUBacon could be tastier – and frying pan froth eliminated – under an EU plan to cut the amount of water added to rashers. Category: News - 25-07-2011Telegraph Man gets suspended death penalty over tainted foodA report says a man has received a suspended death sentence for making and selling a chemical that makes pork leaner but is harmful to humans. Tainted pork is among a string of recent food scandals in China. Category: News - 25-07-2011The Sacramento Bee The Duchess of Cornwall becomes president of UK Vineyards AssociationThe United Kingdom Vineyards Association has announced HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, as its new president. The Duchess of Cornwall takes over the position from Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, who is retiring. Her Royal Highness previously visited ..... Category: News - 25-07-2011Harpers Pink and yellow mushrooms hit UK shopsStrange-looking pink and yellow mushrooms are set to liven up the vegetable aisle when they go on sale. The exotic mushrooms are not grown in some far-flung part of the world, but in a small village in ..... Category: News - 25-07-2011Belfast Telegraph Gordon Ramsay facing New Zealand court action over charity dinner no-showFoul-mouthed celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is set to stand trial in New Zealand for allegedly causing an events company to lose $2.2 million by cancelling his appearance at sold-out charity events here. Ramsay, who charged a ...... Category: News - 26-07-2011NZ Herald The $80 hot dog!With mushroom dust, caviar and creme fraiche topping, it has an ingredient list fit for a Michelin star restaurant. And at $80, a Massachusetts baseball stadium's new hot dog certainly has a price tag to match. The new 'McMullen Dog' at Brockton Roxstadium is vying for the title of ..... Category: News - 26-07-2011Mail Online Anyone like to snort a line of Colombian Asparagus?"Colombian Asparagus" is the latest manifestation of the current cheffy obsession with dusts, soils and exotic powders. Bubble Food, an events and catering company that prides itself on being at the forefront of molecular gastronomy, developed the dish for a ...... Category: News - 26-07-2011Evening Standard New study shows suger doesn't melt, it decomposesSugar doesn”t melt, it decomposes, a new study by University of Illinois researchers has revealed. “This discovery is important to food scientists and candy lovers because it will give them yummier caramel flavors and .... Category: News - 27-07-2011BioScholar Prime spot for Prince Charles's pop-up restaurantThey may have little in common apart from a surname, but Prince Charles and Barbara Windsor have teamed up to open a "pop-up" bar and restaurant in one of London's finest locations. The venue is Lancaster House, next door to Charles's London home Clarence House, and it has already proved ..... Category: News - 27-07-2011Evening Standard Donut burger serves up 1,500 calories!The latest fare at the New York State Fair - the Big Kahuna Donut Burger, as it's officially known - is a quarter pound burger sandwiched between a halved glazed donut and tricked out with cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato and onion. Category: News - 30-07-2011CBS Italian black truffles on sale in MorrisonsMorrisons supermarket has started selling fresh Italian black truffles, one of the most exclusive foods in the world, in its Kirkstall store in Yorkshire. Category: News - 30-07-2011Telegraph $25,000! The world's most expensive dessert, served at Serendipity 3 in New YorkThe Frozen Haute Chocolate, (right) made by New York City eatery, Serendipity 3 and priced at a mind-blowing $25,000 has claimed a spot in the Guiness World Records as The World’s Most Expensive Dessert. Made from a blend of 28 cocoas from across the world, this decadent delicacy is infused with ...... Category: News - 31-07-2011Industry Leaders Thomas Keller to open a 10-day pop-up called "The French Laundry at Harrods"The rumors were circling earlier this year, and now comes the confirmation from Thomas Keller that the deal got done, the details are firmed up, and it’s actually happening: On October 1, Keller and his crew will open a 10-day pop-up restaurant in London, in partnership with Harrods. But this isn’t just ...... Category: News - 01-08-2011Inside Scoop SF Michelin appoints new international director of its guidesMichelin has appointed Michael Ellis as international director of its travel guides following the departure of Jean-Luc Naret, who left at the beginning of this year. New York-born Ellis, who will take responsibility next ..... Category: News - 01-08-2011Caterersearch Camel milk ice cream to go on sale in the UKIt has been heralded as a healthy treat, low in fat and containing ten times more iron than cow's milk. But when ice cream made from camel's milk goes on sale in the UK it could give consumers the hump. For the expensive dessert, which is already popular in the Middle East, costs a whopping ..... Category: News - 19-09-2011Daily Mail Berlin's Culinary Cinema idea travels to other festivalsThe Berlinale’s Culinary Cinema programme is a concept that is now spreading to other festivals. Two international film festivals are now cooperating with the Berlinale to adopt the strand’s “philosophy and format.” Category: News - 04-08-2011Screen Daily American fast food costs more in Russia than AmericaAndrew E. Kramer in the New York Times has a great summary of Russia's newest boom market - fast food. Amongst the interesting tidbits, there's the fact that American fast food outlets are able to charge more from their Russian patrons. According to research, the average Russian spends ...... Category: News - 04-08-2011Business Insider Chocolate-obsessed hacker breaks into Hershey's website to change recipeThe best way to make a s'more is with crispy graham crackers, melting marshmallows and Hershey's delicious brussels sprouts? A hacker only had food on their mind when breaking into Hershey's official site. With cybercrime costs on the rise, a successful hacking attempt on Hershey’s website caused the ...... Category: News - 04-08-2011Digital Trends Delia Smith steps down from Norwich City catering roleAfter celebrating her 70th birthday, the celebrity chef and joint majority shareholder at Carrow Road has announced she is stepping down from her role at running the successful Delia’s Canary Catering. With the Canaries gearing up for the new season back in the Premiership, Delia said she ..... Category: News - 04-08-2011The Pink'un Cumbria hotel starts exporting sticky toffee pudding to AmericaCUMBRIA’S most famous pudding is winging its way to the USA to tickle the taste buds of food-lovers across the pond. Top Lake District hotel, the Sharrow Bay, has begun exporting its world famous sticky toffee pudding to the United States of America after the success of its pudding in the UK. Category: News - 04-08-2011The Wetmorland Gazette Henri IV, Cognac Grande Champagne, a $3.4 million cognac!The one and only Cognac bottle in the world valued at 3.4 million dollars has been called the “The DNA of Cognac, the essence of the water of life…”. This bottle is known to be the most luxurious and most expensive in the world. The Henri IV Dudognon Heritage has been aged in barrels for more than ..... Category: News - 04-08-2011Livetradingnews MasterChef 2010 finalist Alex Rushmer takes on first pub in CambridgeHe has bought the private lease of the Hole in the Wall at Little Wilbraham, Cambridge, from top chef Stephen Bull, who has operated the site since 2005. The venture is in partnership with his old university friend Ben Maude. The pub opened on 12 July after a ...... Category: News - 04-08-2011Morning Advertiser Marco Pierre White partners with Knorr to introduce Knorr Homestyle Stock to the USAs part of the launch, Michelin Star-awarded chef Marco Pierre White has partnered with Knorr to introduce Knorr® Homestyle Stock in the U.S. Chef White has trained some of the world's most iconic chefs and used Knorr® products in his ..... Category: News - 04-08-2011PR Newswire Japan - Can the coffee: Miso machines are the new blackCollective action is a powerful tool for change that has led to so much of our improvement as a species. From bus protests to tax reform, anti-war rallies to dictator-toppling, the simple act of banding together and speaking out can really change nations. Which makes us pause to ....... Category: News - 05-08-2011CNN Looters attack diners at Michelin-starred LedburyDiners at the two Michelin-starred restaurant The Ledbury in Notting Hill were attacked by looters who stormed the dining room demanding jewellery and phones. Gangs of masked youths wearing hoodies and wielding weapons smashed through the glass front door of the restaurant, ransacking the ..... Category: News - 09-08-2011Evening Standard SRA calls on London restaurants to offer doggy bagsThe Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) is launching a new campaign calling on London restaurateurs to offer diners doggy bags to take home left over food. The SRA's Too Good To Waste campaign, which will launch ..... Category: News - 05-08-2011Caterersearch Moet on the rocks! Moet & Chandon launches Ice Imperial - to be drunk with ice!THERE is perhaps no agricultural product more governed by rules than champagne - from where the grapes are grown, to how they are grown, to the type of grapes grown, to the amount of grape juice from each pressing, to the age at which the wine can be sold and so on. And the rules go ...... Category: News - 08-08-2011Australian Are 'Food raves' the next big thing?According to a major new report, Britons’ eating habits are going to radically alter in the years ahead as the nation grapples with rising food prices, concerns about the environment, a desire to experiment, and a longing for a greater sense of ..... Category: News - 08-08-2011Telegraph The world's most expensive fitted kitchenIn Blackpool, a shop called Cheapest Kitchens In The World is offering an entire fitted kitchen – including appliances and all-important "soft-closing drawers" – for £1,995.vHowever, that would barely pay for a tea towel holder in what can fairly claim to be the most expensive kitchen in the ....... Category: News - 26-09-2011Guardian Chefs becoming the missing ingredient in restaurantsUnemployment may have risen to 14.3 per cent in July but, for many in the hotel and restaurant sector, it’s a lack of applicants for jobs, rather than a surplus, that’s causing problems. Bars, restaurants and hotels around the country are finding it increasingly ...... Category: News - 09-08-2011Thepost.ie Daring French baker unveils a 24h baguette vending machineMon Dieu! A French baker is treading on sacred ground by inventing and installing a 24-hour, automated baguette dispenser. Jean-Louise Hecht, who owns bakeries in Paris and the northeast French town of Hombourg-Haut, says he got the ..... Category: News - 10-08-2011USA Today BBC Magazines lines up first iPad-only subscription for Good Food magazineBBC Good Food is set to be the first BBC Magazines title to offer a subscription through the iPad, and is offering a better deal to people subscribing outside the App Store. The monthly lifestyle title announced today (9 August) that it ...... Category: News - 10-08-2011Media Week MasterChef Ireland to start in SeptemberMasterChef Ireland The first-ever series of MasterChef Ireland starts in September on RTÉ Two when some of the best amateur cooks in the country compete to impress the judges - Michelin-starred ..... Category: News - 10-08-2011RTE Study show US burger market sizzlingConsumption of hamburgers in the U.S. is significantly higher than just two years ago, with nearly half of consumers (48 percent) now saying they eat a burger at least once a week compared with 38 percent in 2009. Research released by Technomic, Inc., a foodservice industry research firm, suggests ...... Category: News - 10-08-2011Cattle Network Dorchester Collection’s 45 Park Lane and Wolfgang Puck's CUT to open September 1Dorchester Collection today announced its latest hotel, 45 Park Lane, will open on September 1 overlooking Hyde Park in Mayfair. The new luxury hotel will debut Wolfgang Puck’s first restaurant in Europe, and is designed by ...... Category: News - 10-08-2011Sauce Communications Pollen Street Social wins Highest New Entry Award in 2012 Good Food GuideJason Atherton, the chef who created Maze for Gordon Ramsay before quitting to open his own London restaurant, has won two awards in the 2012 Good Food Guide for Pollen Street Social: Best New Entry and the Highest New Entry. Atherton beats ..... Category: News - 11-08-2011Bloomberg Jonathan's Card: The Starbucks 'Get a Coffee, Give a Coffee' social experimentThe “take a penny, leave a penny” concept works pretty well at diners and convenience stores. But what if, instead of pennies, the currency being shared was digital, and the payments were made by mobile phone? That’s what one mobile app consultant wondered, and he’s now ...... Category: News - 11-08-2011Time Boom in fine wines by the glassHigh-end restaurants are offering more wines by the glass in an effort to up-sell, create more choice and add “theatre” to wine choices. Restaurants which are prepared to reduce margins for top-end wines are ..... Category: News - 11-08-2011Hapers Deep-fried butter on a stick!The Iowa State Fair has hit a new gluttonous low. Just when you thought that there was nothing left to fry, a vendor at the Fair has cooked up something new: a fried stick of butter. Yes, it's been done before (who can forget Paula Deen's Butter Balls?), but according to ..... Category: News - 12-08-2011Huffington Post Lincolnshire awaits confirmation of Best British Food titleFood in Lincolnshire has defeated delicacies from every other county in an online poll. The Love British Food website ran the poll to celebrate the launch of British Food Fortnight and pitted counties against one another to find the source of the nation's finest food. As the vote ended at ...... Category: News - 11-09-2011This is Lincolnshire Harrods launches Justin Bieber sundae for £20If Justin Bieber were an ice cream, he'd be pink, white and sparkly all over. That's according to the ice cream makers at Harrods in London, who have created the Bieber Bocker Glory inspired by the notes of his newest ..... Category: News - 16-08-2011Independent Why restaurants compete for good reviewsTalk about pressure cooking. When the waiter came through the doors at the River Café, and told Charlie McCubbin, the chef, that A A Gill, the restaurant reviewer, had described the meal as “disgusting”, McCubbin exploded. He attempted to punch his odd-job man, Keith McVaigh, who’d left the wine cellar ...... Category: News - 16-08-2011Telegraph Brooklyn movie theather offers gourmet mealsThe newly-opened Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn not only offers gourmet meals (created by chef Saul Bolton) inspired by the very movie you are watching, but they are brought directly to you while you watch said movie. While you take in the ..... Category: News - 17-08-2011popwatch Next concept for Grant Achatz's Next restaurant is 'Childhood'So basically Dave , Next’s chef de cuisine and I were going ‘All right, we did Escoffier and then challenged ourselves with Thai—which, side note, we don’t claim to be Thai experts but it was our version of it—so we did those and now what?’ Category: News - 17-08-2011TimeOutChicago Restaurant boots diner for rude tweetsAsk just about any restaurant owner, chef or staffer, and they’ll share some fantasies about 86′ing Yelpers, mean bloggers or any other irrational complainers. Of course, most of the time, this is a logistical impossibility, because the offending review/comment is often written ...... Category: News - 18-08-2011Inside Scoop SF Heineken unveils two-thirds schooner pintsThe brewer is buying 500,000 new glasses for its Amstel, Tiger and Heineken beer brands in a £3 million initiative which it hopes will revive sales of draught. It follows a change to the laws dating back to 1698 which ruled beer should only be sold in pints or quarts. Heineken hopes the schooner ....... Category: News - 19-08-2011Telegraph Michelin tweets a rave about a closed restaurantIn a small but potentially serious conflagration that has quickly become the butt of many online jokes in the food world, Michelin New York tweeted this on Wednesday: "What an incredible dinner at Le Bernardin last night. The best in years." The problem is that Le Bernardin, The New York Times ....... Category: News - 31-08-2011The Atlantic Wire NY Times critic Sam Sifton names Per Se best restaurant in NYCThis week’s review — my last one as restaurant critic for The Times! — took me to Per Se, Thomas Keller’s sumptuous and extraordinary restaurant in the Time Warner Center. It was last reviewed by my predecessor, Frank Bruni, in 2004. I think it is the best restaurant in New York. It was not always ..... Category: News - 12-10-2011NY Times Sodium use up 144% in US restaurants - mostly through gourmet saltSo much for regulators' war on sodium – salt's presence on restaurant menus has boomed 144% in five years, according to new research. But it's not just the regular stuff straight from the shaker, says Technomic MenuMonitor, which tracks more than ...... Category: News - 04-09-2011LA Times Why pies are hot this seasonFashion isn't supposed to make sense. But it is still a tad surprising that the hottest food in fashion circles right now is chicken pie, a carb fest swathed in buttery pastry. What happened to the no-dressing salad? The vogue for serving chicken pie at fashion events started in America. There it is called ..... Category: News - 04-09-2011Telegraph Mac and Cheese Big Daddy Patty Melt - a 1690 calorie sandwich!So says the headline on the Yahoo! homepage. The extreme sandwich is from Denny's. It's the Mac 'n' Cheese Big Daddy Patty Melt, a "hand-pressed beef patty topped with our NEW creamy Mac ’n Cheese, melted Cheddar cheese and ....... Category: News - 03-09-2011boston.com Coffee's caffeine kick start 'all in the mind'The idea that a coffee will help to stimulate your body and brain and wake you up at the start of the day was put to the test by a team from the University of East London. A group of 88 coffee lovers, aged between 18 and 47, were given at least ....... Category: News - 03-09-2011Metro Richard Corrigan to open a cookery school at country estateChef Richard Corrigan is spending €3 million buying a country estate in Waterford to supply fresh produce to his restaurants and open a cookery school.Corrigan confirmed he had bought Woodstown House, a six-bedroom house on 30 acres on the coastline close to ...... Category: News - 05-09-2011The Post Heston Blumenthal's Christmas pudding goes globalCelebrity chef Heston Blumenthal’s wacky Christmas pudding is going global. Last year, there was such a mad scramble for the puds, which have a candied orange in the middle, that they sold out and were being auctioned on eBay. But with 100 days to Christmas, Waitrose revealed it has ...... Category: News - 16-09-2011Mirror World's longest Yule log cake baked in ChinaThree weeks away from Christmas, Shanghai has already gulped down the world’s longest Yule log cake. We hardly dare imagine what will come next.
Chefs at Shanghai’s Pudong Shangri-La Hotel created a new Guinness World Record by baking the world’s longest Yule log cake, which stretched ..... Category: News - 04-12-2011CNN The Guardian's expert guide to oystersThe R in September means one thing to gourmands: the start of the native oyster season. But oysters are no longer the preserve of tweedy gentlemen and flashy champagne bars. British chefs such as Mark Hix, Richard Corrigan and Ed Baines are now making them a ....... Category: News - 08-09-2011Guardian Jenson Button opens his own restaurant in HarrogateFormula One fans hoping that Jenson Button's new restaurant venture will be some kind of homage to the high-speed exploits of the British driver are set for the culinary equivalent of a blow-out on the starting grid. Apart from a few oblique asides – a copy of ...... Category: News - 07-09-2011Independent Chinese bidder buys Chateau Lafite lot for over $500,000 at Hong Kong auctionBundled into a single lot, 300 bottles of Château Lafite-Rothschild sold over the weekend for $539,280 to an anonymous Chinese phone bidder at a Christie’s auction in Hong Kong, making it the most ....... Category: News - 07-09-2011Wall Street Journal Foie gras to be banned in CaliforniaThe protesters are animal-rights advocates who say force- feeding ducks and geese to fatten their livers is cruel. Danko and other California chefs will have to remove foie gras from their menus in July, when the state becomes the first to ....... Category: News - 07-09-2011Bloomberg UK Restaurants face £722m food waste billRestaurants lose £722m every year by throwing away 400,000 tonnes of food, the equivalent of three double-decker buses for every outlet in the country. Around 65 per cent of the waste is generated during preparation, but diners with ...... Category: News - 07-09-2011Businessgreen MacBook Air 'doubles as kitchen knive'When all your kitchen knives are in the dishwasher and you really -- just really -- need to chop up some carrots, what tool do you turn to for backup? Well, the MacBook Air, of course. Apple's ultra-lightweight laptop computer has become the star of a few bizarre online ..... Category: News - 07-09-2011CNN Cup noodles museum opens in Yokohama for instant ramen's 40th birthdayn 1971, Apollo 14 and 15 both landed on the moon, the Ed Sullivan Show aired its last episode and Amtrak started running trains between American cities. Walt Disney World opened in Orlando and construction began on the ..... Category: News - 08-09-2011Huffington Post Zagat releases 2011 Fast Food Survey. And the winner of the best burger is?The Five Guys logo may not be as ubiquitous as the golden arches or the pig-tailed red head along U.S. roadways, but its burgers are near and dear to the hearts (and stomachs) of Americans. For the second year in a row, the Virginia-based chain claimed the coveted ...... Category: News - 08-09-2011Today Show UKTV add Roux family and Ramsay to fall line-upIn addition, Good Food has commissioned Cactus TV to produce a series on the culinary clan, the Roux family. The Roux Dynasty (10 x 60 minutes) will see four members of the famous food family cooking alongside each other on TV for the first time. The series will provide a ....... Category: News - 08-09-2011Realscreen National Chef of the Year finalists revealedThe finalists for this year's prestigious National Chef of the Year competition have been announced. The eight finalists, who will compete at the annual competition's final next month, were selected from a total of 40 chefs after competing at four semi-final cook-offs held in ....... Category: News - 08-09-2011Carterersearch Yo! Sushi set to launch in the USARestaurant chain Yo! Sushi is set to expand across the Atlantic after signing its first franchise agreement in the USA. The company, which currently operates restaurants in the UK, Ireland, Portugal and the Middle East, has signed a deal with the Sushi Company of North America to open ...... Category: News - 08-09-2011Caterersearch Dutch bank plans cheese dividendAmsterdam: ASN Bank NV, SNS Reaal NV's sustainable-banking unit, is considering starting an investment fund designed to create more biodiversity that will pay dividends in cheese. For every ¤1,000 (Dh5,083) invested, four kilograms of cheese would be paid out ...... Category: News - 11-09-2011Gulfnews Rick Stein to create jobs with Cornwall expansionThe Seafood Restaurant, which includes Mr Stein’s 11 ventures that include fish and chip shops, cafés and a public house, has seen sales increase by 4pc in the year to August. Full time employment passed the 300 mark for the first time as it opened a ..... Category: News - 11-09-2011Telegraph Can you eat this HUGE sandwich aka the 'Fat Boy' ?Twelve contestants, including North Tonawanda Mayor Robert Ortt, tried to eat what's known as the "Fat Boy". It's the feature sandwich at Vito's Pizzeria and Sports Bar on Zimmerman Street in North Tonwanda. It's a 4 and a half pound stinger wrap with chicken fingers, steak, and 7 kinds of ....... Category: News - 11-09-2011wkbw Finance Guy In London Explains How To Order Cocaine From A RestaurantDespite the volatile global economy, one business is booming in London's financial district -- cocaine dealers. That's what a recovering drug and alcohol addict, who once said he couldn't stop his habit of "shoving my six figure bonuses up my nose," told the Guardian. "It is absolutely ...... Category: News - 12-09-2011Business Insider Poor pub hygiene link to rise in gastric infectionsA third of ice cubes used to chill juices, coffees and cocktails contain hazardous levels of bacteria indicative of poor hygiene standards, research reveals. A failure by restaurants and pubs to clean ice machines and trays properly, and chilling drinks with cubes left in the freezer for ........ Category: News - 11-09-2011Independent The world's most eggspensive dessertHow about this for a spot of fine dining — the world's most expensive dessert has been whipped up ... for £22,000. The haute cuisine chocolate pudding is shaped like a Faberge Easter egg — but made with a whole host of luxurious ingredients, including ..... Category: News - 10-10-2011The Sun Morrisons uses pop-up restaurant to trial new food range ..... and diners won't be told until the end!Customers attracted by Twitter and Facebook invitations to a pop up restaurant in London's West End would probably have been unaware - until the end of the evening - of the identity of the creators of the meals they were enjoying. In fact the Kitchen, opposite the Liberty department store, opens for ..... Category: News - 11-10-2011Guardian Heston Blumenthal triumphs, Ramsay loses in Zagat London restaurant guideDinner by Heston Blumenthal was today named London’s best new restaurant by the Zagat Guide, beating competition from other leading chefs in a year when the cost of eating out jumped 6.3 percent, the most in a decade. Gordon Ramsay Restaurant lost the top place for ...... Category: News - 14-09-2011Bloomberg Sell-by dates to be removed in the UK to reduce food wasteSell-by dates will be removed from food products under plans to be announced today by the Environment Secretary, Caroline Spelman. She will call on manufacturers only to carry "use-by" or "best before" advice in an effort to reduce the estimated ........ Category: News - 15-09-2011Independent World's largest chocolate bar weighs in at 12,290 poundsChocolate fans who maintain that if you find chocolate on your hands you are not eating it fast enough will find a challenge when confronted with the world’s largest chocolate bar. Created by World’s Finest Chocolate, the 3-foot-high, 21-foot-long chocolate bar weighed in at 12,290 pounds Tuesday, setting a ...... Category: News - 15-09-2010Gant Daily The connoisseur's underground vault - the £1 billion wine cellar"I know the way," nods the driver in his soft West Country accent. "My brother works here," he adds. "They have plenty of bottles all right; some of them he tells me are worth up to £3,000." He's not wrong. Lying 30 meters below us is the wine world's answer to Fort Knox, an enormous ..... Category: News - 16-09-2011Wall Street Journal Victory for Somerset as cider brandy wins protected statusThe future of a little-known but historic spirit made from Somerset apples appears to have been secured after a four-year battle with bureaucrats and European rivals. Though written records of Somerset cider brandy date back to 1678, the tipple was removed from a European commission order defining ..... Category: News - 15-09-2011Guardian Champagne is getting too warm to grow Pinot MeunierJean-Hervé Chiquet, co-owner of Champagne Jacquesson, told the drinks business of his concerns for the black grape: “Because of the effects of global warming raising average temperatures, Champagne is becoming too warm for Pinot Meunier. “As a result, it’s getting ..... Category: News - 15-09-2011The Drinks Business Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley tops All in London's Ultimate Restaurant List 2011Marcus Wareing At The Berkeley has become the first restaurant to win London’s All In One: Ultimate Restaurant Award. The award, developed by online London guide All In London.co.uk, has been designed to produce one comprehensive rating, which combines numerous ...... Category: News - 15-09-2011PR Fire Former chief-inspector slashes MichelinInspectors of the prestigious Michelin guide are under pressure from the marketing department to hand out stars. By creating exitement around new stars Michelin hopes to sell more guides. Michelin also has too few inspectors to carefully inspect all hotels and restaurants in the Michelin guide. These statements are made by former Michelin chief-inspector Paul van Cranenbroeck in his book 'The Magi... Category: Michelin - 12-09-2011READ MORE Indian researchers in Scotland have invented a laser test to identify fake whiskyTheir invention could save distilleries and bars millions of pounds in Asia where counterfeit whisky is big business but knowledge of single malts is rare. Police in India and other Asian countries regularly uncover fake whisky rackets in which organised gangs buy empty bottles, print their own ..... Category: News - 03-11-2011Telegraph Slow Food launches 'Raw Milk' campaign at the Cheese 2011 eventSlow Food has been fighting for the rights of consumers to buy raw milk and the rights of cheesemakers to make cheese from raw milk for almost two decades, and its biennial event, Cheese, has long been a forum for publicizing the issue. This year Cheese 2011 sees the launch of a ...... Category: News - 19-09-2011Slow Food Housebites.com - UK's first gourmet takeaway service, starting in London this weekSerial entrepreneur Simon Prockter is hoping his latest venture will help change the way we look at takeaway food, for good. He's about to launch the UK's first gourmet takeaway service - housebites.com - starting in London this week. The site has received six figure backing from ...... Category: News - 19-09-2011Easier Jamie Oliver urges UN to tackle obesityJamie Oliver has taken his campaign for healthier eating to a global level by urging the United Nations to help end the world obesity crisis. The chef has written to secretary general Ban Ki-moon in an effort to make the UN put more pressure on governments to take action. Oliver raised ...... Category: News - 19-09-2011Tonight News Heinz debuts car-friendly ketchup packetSome people rip off the corner of the packet with their teeth. Others, while driving, squirt the ketchup directly into their mouth, then add fries. Some forgo fries at the drive-through all together to keep from creating a mess in the car. After observing these and other ...... Category: News - 19-09-2011Fox Indian wines fly off British supermarket shelvesThe first Indian wines to be sold by a British supermarket could become a fixture on its shelves after coming close to selling out in record time. Earlier this month, Waitrose became the first UK supermarket to stock the little-known brands from the sub-continent as part of a showcase of ...... Category: News - 20-09-2011Guardian Coffee consumption patterns are all in the genesAs part of an international study, researchers from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) claim they have identified a gene that plays a role in influencing how much coffee people drink. Dr Enda Byrne from QIMR said the study, published today in Molecular Psychiatry journal, shows that ..... Category: News - 18-09-2011Australia Food News Romanee-Conti 1990 fetches record $297,400 at Hong Kong auctionA rare case of Romanee-Conti 1990 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Burgundy sold for HK$2.32 million ($297,400) in Hong Kong, a price auction house Acker, Merrall & Condit said set a world saleroom record for that vintage. The wine was sold to a Hong Kong collector bidding by ..... Category: News - 20-09-2011Bloomberg Domino's founder Tom Monaghan starting gourmet burger delivery businessHe founded Domino’s Pizza. He owned the Detroit Tigers. He started Ave Maria University and built a town around it. What’s next for Thomas Monaghan? At 74, he’s pursuing a new dream, going back to his roots in the delivery business. This time, it will be gourmet hamburgers, not ....... Category: News - 26-09-2011Napels News A write-up in the Good Pub Guide? That will be £200 ...It is the bible for Britain’s pubgoers – but now The Good Pub Guide is accused of losing its integrity and holding landlords to ransom by charging them to be included. For the first time, pubs in the 2012 guide, published next month, will have paid up to £200 for the privilege. Previously entries were ..... Category: News - 25-09-2011Daily Mail Diners' choice awards name San Francisco foodie capital of the USIn the latest survey to rank cities for their dining scene, the San Francisco Bay area led the pack with the most restaurants deemed "fit for foodies" in the US, followed by Chicago and New York. Popular online reservation site OpenTable released this week The Top 50 Restaurants for ...... Category: News - 24-09-2011Independent How does the world's best-selling beer taste?You can be forgiven for having never heard of Snow Beer (雪花啤酒). It sells only in mainland China, not even breaking into the Hong Kong market. But this Beijing-based beer brand is so popular in this most populous nation that it sells more, by volume, than any other beer in ...... Category: News - 24-09-2011CNN McDonald's in legal battle with Houston Mac & Cheese restaurant over the word 'Mac'A Houston-area gourmet macaroni and cheese eatery is involved in a trademark battle with fast food behemoth Big Mac because it dared to use the word "mac" in the restaurant's name. Opened almost a year ago, Jus' Mac is a restaurant with around 18 different varieties of ...... Category: News - 23-09-2011Consumerist Marco Pierre White goes to court over 17th century pub (Yew Tree Inn)The celebrity chef and host of numerous cooking shows is fighting his former business partners over what he claims is his share of the £1.6m restaurant used to film his 2008 series Marco's Great British Feast. Until the beginning of this year The Yew Tree in Highclere was known as ..... Category: News - 23-09-2011Telegraph Ferran Adria revamps meals for FC BarcelonaThe future stars of FC Barcelona are getting royal culinary treatment. The Spanish club recruited famed chef Ferran Adriá on Thursday to revamp its youth academy menu. The European champions say the former El Bulli chef will redesign the club's La Masia meals to "foster healthy eating and ...... Category: News - 23-09-2011Fox News Chile to export first truffles in 2013Chilean truffle growers have increased production this year with expectations to export in 2013, according to the Agricultural Innovation Foundation (FIA). The industry still only accounts for 150 hectares but is leading the way in South American truffle cultivation, with output rising ...... Category: News - 22-09-2011Fresh Fruit Portal Famous New York restaurant Elaine's sells of memorabiliaAn eclectic collection of art and memorabilia from the watering hole on Manhattan's Upper East Side went on the auction block on Tuesday at Doyle New York. The restaurant, a longtime favourite of writers and celebrities, shut its doors in May following the death of owner Elaine Kaufman. More than ..... Category: News - 22-09-2011Telegraph Yorkshire pub named best in the UKJames and Kate Mackenzie won the accolade for The Pipe and Glass Inn, a 17th century pub in South Dalton, a village to the north of Hull. The couple replace Mr Blumenthal in the number one spot. The television chef won the award last year for The Hinds Head in Bray, Berkshire, which is also ..... Category: News - 04-11-2011Telegraph Michelin US releases 2012 New York City Bib GourmandsThough the full selection of the MICHELIN Guide New York City 2012 won't be available for another week, Michelin announced today that 114 New York City restaurants have been included in the 2012 "Bib Gourmand" category. Bib Gourmand selections are restaurants serving two courses and ..... Category: News - 28-09-2011PR News Wire Spain opens first gourmet universitySpain launched its first "gastronomic university" on Monday, the second institution in Europe to enshrine fine cooking as an academic. "At last we have managed, for the first time in Spain and the second in Europe, to have cooking ranked as a university subject" like medicine, architecture or ...... Category: News - 27-09-2011AFP Jamie Oliver makes the top 10 of the most influential people in the book industryJeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, has been named the most powerful person in the book industry in a Guardian list published today showcasing the most influential people of the moment. The founder of Amazon tops the Book Power 100 list with J.K Rowling following in ..... Category: News - 26-09-2011Guardian Three star chef Yannick Alleno has opened his first restaurant in AsiaThree Michelin-starred chef Yannick Alleno brings S.T.A.Y. to the Shangri-la Hotel Beijing. The Dubai version pared down the dining experience to simple, good food with a local twist. The Beijing iteration of S.T.A.Y. promises more of the same--including a pastry "library" (his first ..... Category: News - 30-09-2011City Weekend Abergavenny hotel toasts 100 years in the Michelin guideA MONMOUTHSHIRE Hotel is the only one in Wales to have appeared in both the original 1911 Michelin Guide and the current 2011 edition. The Angel Hotel, Abergavenny, famed for its afternoon teas, is one of only 30 hotels in the UK to have achieved this as the ..... Category: News - 29-09-2011South Wales Argus Momofuku Seiobo opening in Sydney; interview with David ChangRenowned for his inventive “dude food” and brazen attitude, acclaimed New York chef David Chang is set to take Sydney by storm, writes Terry Durack. There are two David Changs. At least. There’s the one who immediately took every vegetarian dish off the menu of his Momofuku ..... Category: News - 29-09-2011The Sydney Morning Herald How to make it sizzle: modern chefs are elevating steak to an art formIt's furtive affair, ordering steak. Quite frequently the most expensive item on the menu, it suffers the unfortunate reputation of being the dullard's chosen dish. Everyone likes steak, don't they? It's a safe bet. It's also – or so the conventional wisdom has run – a boring one. Why have steak when you ..... Category: News - 29-09-2011Independent New online food service www.farmison.com to appeal to 'foodies'A new online food store, aiming to offer restaurant-quality food to consumers, has launched. Farmison.com, which has received the backing of former Asda CEO Andy Bond, offers quality seasonal foods via suppliers used by top chefs, including Michel Roux, Gordon Ramsay and Raymond Blanc. The ..... Category: News - 29-09-2011Retail Gazette 1858 cognac fetches $156,740Tip your glass: China has set yet another record. A bottle of cognac fetched 1 million yuan (US$156,740) at a recent auction in Shanghai, handily exceeding the €25,000 record set in France in 2009, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The result underscores the ..... Category: News - 29-09-2011WSJ Two-Michelin Star Tokyo Restaurant in Trouble Over Fugu PoisoningTakeshi Yasuge, chef at the two Michelin starred Tokyo restaurant Fugu Fukuji, has had his license to serve pufferfish removed after a woman who ate at his restaurant was hospitalized. According to the AFP, the woman suffered a "headache and numbness in her lips." A health official said, "The chef served a .... Category: News - 02-12-2011Eater Marks & Spencer launches French websiteIt has been a decade in which French fans of Marks & Spencer bacon, sausages, double cream, Earl Grey tea and cotton knickers have simply had to do without. Ten long years since the British flagship retreated back across the Channel closing its stores in France and across Europe amid ..... Category: News - 11-10-2011Guardian German fashion designer makes clothes from milkAnke Domaske, 28, has developed a fabric called QMilch made from high concentrations of the milk protein casein -- the first man-made fiber produced entirely without chemicals. "It feels like silk and it doesn't smell -- you can wash it just like anything else," Domaske told Reuters. Made from ...... Category: News - 07-10-2011Reuters South Korean supermarket launches world’s first virtual storeAccording to international studies of worker productivity, South Koreans spend more hours on the job than workers in many other countries. That means many find it hard to make time for even the most basic of chores, like grocery shopping. In Seoul, a Korean supermarket chain has ..... Category: News - 30-09-2011voanews Nigella's Christmas released as e-bookChatto & Windus has released Nigella Lawson's festive title Nigella Christmas as an e-book, in full colour and with interactive features. The digital edition will be available for all e-reading devices, with a r.r.p. of £26, and with Amazon.co.uk currently selling it at £14.01, W H Smith currently selling it at ..... Category: News - 30-09-2011The Bookseller Heatwave heralds vintage year for English wineUntil last week some winemakers in the south of England were fearful that grape crops would have to be destroyed as the cold summer meant that they had not ripened sufficiently. With the wine harvest due to take place around now, vineyards were concerned that hundreds of ...... Category: News - 01-10-2011Telegraph Women think about food more than sexMany women put more effort into dieting than into their relationships and think about food more than sex, new research reveals. The study, carried out by weight-loss company Atkins, also found one in 10 women would feel guiltier straying from their diet than being ..... Category: News - 02-10-2011Bigpondnews Denmark introduces world's first food fat taxDenmark has introduced what is believed to be the world's first fat tax - a surcharge on foods that are high in saturated fat. Butter, milk, cheese, pizza, meat, oil and processed food are now subject to the tax if they contain more than 2.3% saturated fat. Some consumers began hoarding to beat the ...... Category: News - 02-10-2011BBC News Salads are nice, but burger are what really sell - Americans talk skinny but eat fatNo matter that First Lady Michelle Obama has been on a crusade for a year and a half to slim down the country. Never mind that some restaurants have started listing calories on their menus. Forget even that we keep saying we want to eat healthy. When Americans eat out, we order burgers and ..... Category: News - 03-10-2011Wall Street Journal China's rich pass on Lafite for first time in 17 Hong Kong Sotheby's salesSotheby’s failed to sell all of the wine in a Hong Kong auction for the first time in 17 sales as China’s wealthy collectors passed on oversized bottles of Chateau Lafite Rothschild yesterday in Hong Kong. The weekend sales came after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index had its worst quarter since the end of ..... Category: News - 03-10-2011Bloomberg Claridge's London sold to Barclay BrothersAfter endless wrangling in the fallout from the collapse of the Irish economy, The Irish National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) has finally found a buyer for Claridge’s. David and Frederick Barclay, the so-called Barclay Brothers, have successfully bought Claridge’s and two other top London hotels to ..... Category: News - 03-10-2011Hotel Industry Snails and snail caviar are helping Bulgaria crawl out of crisisBulgaria's economic recovery is moving at a snail's pace _ but here nobody's complaining. Millions of gastropods are munching their way through clover fields at this farm, fattening themselves up to feed a soaring European appetite for gourmet snails. Demand in Paris, Rome and Madrid is near record highs after ..... Category: News - 03-10-2011Taiwain News Chocolate prices to be affected by climate changeClimate scientists warn that West Africa’s cocoa-growing regions will be threatened by climate change in the years to come. In a new study by the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), researchers found that the impacts of climate change will most likely affect supply ...... Category: News - 04-10-2011RedOrbit UK food and drink industry cuts water use by 12%A coalition of U.K. food and drink firms, including the British arms of Nestle and PepsiCo, has reduced their total water use per ton of product by 11.9 percent since 2007. The figures, contained in the Federation House Commitment’s latest annual report, puts the FHC’s members over half of the way ..... Category: News - 04-10-2011Environmental Leader Heston Blumenthal's top 10 festive tips1: DON’T overstretch yourself and make sure that you don’t do too many last- minute things. Christmas is all about relaxing and spending time with friends and family. Prepare as many things in advance as possible so that you can enjoy the day. Plan lunch carefully. Make sure that all the ..... Category: News - 11-12-2011Mirror Revealing the world's first hay-flavoured chocolateIt is usually the preserve of horses, rabbits and guinea pigs. But now hay has been used for the first time in range of luxury chocolates. Prestigious chocolatiers Sir Hans Sloane, London, have launched the world’s first collection of hay-flavoured chocolates for guests at the five-star ..... Category: News - 12-10-2011Paula Deen named hottest female TV chef by Maxim magazineRachael Ray was once on the cover of FHM magazine. The Google query "in love with giada de laurentiis" has 2.7 million hits. Suzanne Pirret inspired Heston Blumenthal to leave his wife of 22 years to be with her. Padma Lakshmi gets an 86/100 in sexiness from AskMen.com. But according to ..... Category: News - 12-10-2011Huffington Post Sainsbury's backs British food in £1bn sustainability planSainsbury’s will launch a £1 billion sustainability plan today, in which it pledges to double the amount of British food it sells by 2020. The promise to back British food is part of Sainsbury’s '20 by 20 Sustainability Plan’, in which the grocer is undertaking to meet ...... Category: News - 12-10-2011GreenWise Spanish police capture 'gastro gang' targeting world's top restaurantsThey could go down in history as the gastro gang, a group of burglars whose favourite targets in Spain included several three-starred Michelin restaurants. But on Wednesday police announced they had finally captured the robbers, whose break-ins included restaurants run by ...... Category: News - 12-10-2011Guardian World's oldest whisky on auctionTwo 200 ml bottles of the world’s oldest single malt whisky, The Glenlivet 70 Year Old, will not only be making their first appearance in South Africa at the FNB Whisky Live Festival 2011, but will be available to purchase through a Tops at Spar auction during the Festival. All proceedswill be donated to ..... Category: News - 12-10-2011IOL Lifestyle Restaurant serves up 8,000 calorie burgerIf you’re going to laugh in the face of obesity by opening a restaurant that serves an 8,000-calorie burger, you might as well open it in Sin City. And that’s just what Heart Attack Grill owner Jon Basso is doing. On Wednesday, the owner opens the doors to his third Heart Attack Grill location, this time in ...... Category: News - 12-10-2011ABC Burger King Japan now selling a "Pizza-Size" Whopper!Some of you may remember the BK Whopper Bar in New York City's 9.5" diameter Pizza Burger from 2010. Well, a version of that monster has crossed the globe to hit the stomachs of Japanese eaters. Dubbed the "Pizza-Size Burger," the BK Japan take is slightly smaller (8.8") and doesn't got ..... Category: News - 03-11-2011Consumerist Starbucks to offer beer and wine in more locationsListen up, beer lovers -- you may soon be able to get your suds in grande form. At Starbucks. Starbucks said Monday that it would begin offering beer and wine at select locations in Atlanta and Southern California by the end of this year, to go along with several locations in the Chicago area that have ..... Category: News - 23-01-2012CNN Blumenthal's pine mince pies hit eBayIt’s only been on Waitrose shelves for a few hours, but Heston Blumenthal’s latest festive creation has already hit eBay. The follow-up to his Hidden Orange Christmas Pudding - which was reportedly selling for more than £100 a pop on the auction site last year - is a mince pie that has a dash of ..... Category: News - 13-10-2011The Grocer Heston vs Ferran: Is it possible for an amateur to cook like a culinary god?I'm an average to middling home cook, so it was with trepidation that I open Heston Blumenthal At Home looking for menu ideas to take on my colleague, Jamie. Green tea and lime palate cleanser? Hmm. Parsley porridge? I don't think so. But the whole point of the "at home" books by these ......
But ev Category: News - 14-10-2011Independent Pizza in a cone arrives in TorontoWho says pizza has to be flat? Not Eli Turkienicz, who has just launched pizza in a cone at his two Toronto gelaterias. He figures that offering pizza in a cone alongside gelato in a cone makes perfect sense at The Mad Italian on College St. and on Bayview Ave. “We have hot cones, we have ....... Category: News - 14-10-2011The Star Marco Pierre White's secret plan to steal Jamie Oliver's school dinner thunderAs Jamie Oliver prepares to launch his second manifesto for better British food, his longstanding critic, the Michelin-starred chef Marco Pierre White, has developed a rival plan to persuade government to improve the nation's school dinners, invading political territory staked out by ..... Category: News - 16-10-2011Guardian San Francisco restaurants propose standard 25% tipMost diners in the United States currently give a voluntary tip of between 15 and 20 per cent depending on the service and the quality of the food. But the new measure, which is reportedly supported by high class eateries, would be mandatory. According to a recent survey San Francisco diners are ..... Category: News - 17-10-2011Telegraph The Experimental Food Society: art you can get your teeth intoShould you be so blasé as to think that Heston Blumenthal and El Bulli haven’t gone far enough in their gustatory experiments, and that bacon meringues and buttered nitrogen are as old hat as a can of Heinz baked beans, then book now for the Experimental Food Society’s Spectacular, to be held on ...... Category: News - 17-10-2011Telegraph 3 new three-stars restaurants - West Japan challenges Tokyo's tasty Michelin crownWestern Japan challenged Tokyo on Tuesday for its status as the global centre of gourmet dining, with the Michelin guide awarding area restaurants more of the coveted three-star ratings than those given to establishments in the capital. A total of 15 restaurants in the Kansai area, which ...... Category: News - 18-10-2011Reuters Coffee chains urged to improve takeaway cup recyclingCoffe shops are failing to make it easy for customers to recycle the estimated 2.5bn takeaway cups thrown away each year in the UK, a consumer group warned on Tuesday. The investigation by Which? found that consumers were confused by retailers' use of "mixed materials", which make ...... Category: News - 18-10-2011Guardian Mutt-balls, Poochi Sushi, Pup-sicles and Grrrr-avy - Food truck for dogsLauren Hicks leaned out of her food-truck window, took an order for something called "Poochi Sushi" and soon produced a plastic container of snacks that looked like sushi, maybe even tasted like sushi, but were definitely not sushi. Her customer, Jay Malone of Altamonte Springs, knelt down and ..... Category: News - 20-10-2011Orlando Sentinal 3-foot-tall burger biggest in the worldA Downriver restaurant doesn't just make the biggest hamburger in the world. It also apparently makes the only burger that grows. How else to explain the expanding dimensions of the signature sandwich at Mallie's Sports Grill & Bar in Southgate? In 2008, it was 134 pounds. Six months later, it was ..... Category: News - 21-10-2011detnews.com Guy Savoy Las Vegas buys $7,000 white truffleGuy Savoy at Caesars Palace acquired a 1.16 pounds white truffle yesterday from Urbani Truffles. The truffle was picked by a 15 year-old-boy, Luigi, in training with his truffle farmer father, Francesco, and found by his mixed breed hound dog Coco next to a hazel tree in ..... Category: News - 21-10-2011Las Vegas Sun Nigellissima: Italian Express - New Nigella Lawson cookbook coming next autumnChatto & Windus has acquired a new book by "Domestic Goddess" Nigella Lawson, whipping up rights in Nigellissima: Italian Express. Publishing director Clara Farmer bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Ed Victor, with a tie-in TV series currently in discussion with ..... Category: News - 21-10-2011The Bookseller Sir Paul McCartney launches The Meat Free Monday CookbookSir Paul McCartney will go head-to-head with Jamie Oliver today with the launch of his first cookbook, aimed at persuading people to eat less meat. The former Beatle, who over the weekend celebrated his wedding to Nancy Shevell with a star-studded party in New York, has ...... Category: News - 24-10-2011Telegraph California chefs consider foie gras ban challengeCalifornia passed law SB1520 in 2004 banning force feeding of any bird, effectively outlawing foie gras, which is produced by ‘speed feeding’ geese and ducks via a special tube. The law has an eight-year lead time and comes into effect in July 2012; how to deal with it was being discussed by ...... Category: News - 24-10-2011Decanter The McRib makes a McComeback in the USMcDonald's announced Monday that the boneless barbecue pork sandwich, usually available in only a few stores at a time, will be sold at all U.S. locations through Nov. 14. Most of the time, it's up to local franchises to determine when and if they want to sell the McRib — except in ..... Category: News - 25-10-2011USA Today Michelin 2012: 3 more San Francisco Restaurants gain 2 Michelin StarsIn the Michelin Guide to San Francisco area restaurants and hotels for 2012, which will go on sale Thursday, the French Laundry and the Restaurant at Meadowood remain the only three-star restaurants in the Bay Area. But the list of two-stars has doubled to six from three with the additions of ..... Category: News - 26-10-2011NY Times Thanksgiving Croissant debuts at Momofuku Milk BarI was as excited as everyone else to check out the new Thanksgiving croissant at Momofuku Milk Bar, which has moved across the street from its original West 13th Street location. Well, in spite of all the hype, it's not really new, since a similar pastry was offered last year at ..... Category: News - 02-11-2011Village Voice The price of white truffles has doubled to €3,000 per kg in just one weekWith stocks in Milan in freefall, it's good to be reminded that some values in Italy are shooting up. The price of white truffle has doubled to 3,000 euros (S$5,300) per kg in just a week. Truffle hunters say the increase is due to low average rainfall in areas where truffle is found, as well as ..... Category: News - 02-11-2011Straits Times Asda signs up Leiths Cookery School to create and develop "Extra Special" rangeAsda, Britain's second-biggest supermarket group behind Tesco (TSCO.L), said on Wednesday it had agreed a long-term strategic partnership with Leiths School of Food and Wine, whose graduates include TV presenter Lorraine Pascale. Leiths, set up in 1975, by restaurateur Prue Leith and ...... Category: News - 02-11-2011Reuters Background music 'affects taste of wine'The study shows that people who drink wine while listening to music perceive the wine to have the same taste characteristics of the particular artist. The research published in the British Journal of Psychology found that for the best earthy and full-bodied Merlot taste experience, drinkers should try .....
They were g Category: News - 02-11-2011Telegraph World's first 'halal whisky'The whisky distillers of Scotland are in revolt over an ‘alcohol free’ creation. ArKay (pictured) is being promoted as delivering the ‘exceptional taste of whisky without the alcohol content’ and ideal for teetotallers or those worried about drinking and driving. Significantly, it has been declared as ..... Category: News - 04-11-2011Here's what Twitter told Rene Redzepi to do with a moose headThis morning, Rene Redzepi of Copenhagen’s Noma — the top restaurant in the world, per Pellegrino — tweeted a photo of a bunch of animals that arrived at his restaurant, courtesy of a (presumably local?) hunter. Redzepi then asked the following question: “wtf to do with a moose head?” Fortunately ..... Category: News - 04-11-2011Inside SF Roganic wins Square Meal's best newcomer awardSimon Rogan's two-year pop-up restaurant Roganic has been named the best new eatery in London by Square Meal. The first venture in the capital by Rogan, who also runs the Michelin-starred L'Enclume in Cartmel in the Lake District, Roganic beat stiff competition to win the award, including ..... Category: News - 04-11-2011GuideGirl New occupy site: Yountville's French Laundry!Occupy protesters covered new, four-star ground Friday, targeting a private dinner at The French Laundry, Thomas Keller's acclaimed Napa Valley eatery, where they said officials from JPMorgan Chase were gathered. About 30 protesters picketed on the sidewalk outside the ..... Category: News - 05-11-2011Press Democrat Gordon Ramsay hit by internet job scamGORDON Ramsay has been hit by internet fraudsters cashing in on his success. Bogus job adverts for non-existent staff posts with the Michelin-starred chef have appeared across the web. Ambitious workers are lured into ringing premium-rate numbers or paying commission to headhunters. In the past ..... Category: News - 06-11-2011Daily Record Iowa billboard equates bacon with cigarettes!One of Iowa’s signature meat products took a shot Monday when an advocacy group planned to put up a billboard on Douglas Avenue near Merle Hay Mall equating eating bacon with smoking. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, based in Washington, D.C., backed up its anti-bacon ..... Category: News - 09-11-2011Desmoines Register Mario Batali in hot water after comparing bankers to Hitler and StalinCelebrity chef Mario Batali has been forced to apologise after comparing bankers to Hitler and Stalin. The best-selling author owns a chain of restaurants across the US and is a partner in New York's Eataly food megamarket. It can take months to get reservations at his ..... Category: News - 11-11-2011Guardian Birth of the beer sommelierIt’s a dispiriting experience familiar to anyone who has ever asked for beer in one of London’s many high-end restaurants. The wine list requires its own trolley and a pair of wheezing waiters to heave it around, but the beers available can be reeled off in two seconds by a curled-lipped ..... Category: News - 11-11-2011Independent UK police are investigating a vile racist tweet sent to BBC TV cook Lorraine PascaleUK police are investigating a vile racist tweet sent to BBC TV cook Lorraine Pascale. Baking Made Easy star Pascale, 38, passed it to the Metropolitan Police on Sunday. She had already exposed the racist by copying the rant and posting it on her Twitter page, with the sender’s tag. On Sunday the ...... Category: News - 14-11-2011IOL news 12 white truffles sold for €227,200 at World White Truffle of Alba AuctionTwelve truffles were sold for a total 227,200 euro at the World White Truffle of Alba Auction. The 13th edition of the auction was held in Grinzane Cavour and broadcast live via satellite. The final lot consisted of two truffles found in the same hole by a lucky truffle hunter: the bigger of the two, weighing .... Category: News - 14-11-2011www.agi.it Speyside Glenlivet teams up with Michel Roux jrSpeyside Glenlivet, one of the purest naturally sourced mineral waters, has unveiled a new trade advertising campaign with brand ambassador Michel Roux Jr, the world-renowned chef from the two Michelin-star Le Gavroche restaurant in London. The new campaign launches as the brand ..... Category: News - 14-11-2011Scotland Food & Drink Highlights from The New Yorker Food IssueThe annual food issue of the New Yorker is out this week, featuring a range of stories from foraging in Copenhagen to exploring new apple varieties. The highlights (many are subscription only, but all offer an abstract of the story): In "The Food At Our Feet," Jane Kramer asks why foraging is ..... Category: News - 15-11-2011Huffington Post Bistronomia is on the rise in CataloniaThe end of Spain's molecular era gives rise to a more accessible style. Posters of Ferran Adria are plastered on a shop window in Barcelona. Once the chef at elBulli - the world's best restaurant, as voted by Britain's Restaurant magazine - Adria now leers from an advertising hoarding in a ..... Category: News - 15-11-2011Sydney Morning Herald Tesco launches the Christmas crisps collectionIt’s been nicknamed the ‘Crispmas Dinner collection’ and is surely one of the most unusual snack selections ever launched. Tesco has launched a complete festive meal - made of crisps. It even comes with 'dessert' - the UK’s first ever sweet crisps in the form of mince pie flavour, seasoned with .... Category: News - 16-11-2011Daily Mail Pete Wells is named New York Times restaurant criticNew York Times Dining editor Pete Wells has been named the newspaper's new chief restaurant critic, succeeding Sam Sifton, who has been national editor since September. According to a New York Times memo: No one could be better prepared or respected for his superb writing, intimate knowledge of ..... Category: News - 16-11-2011LA Times Michelin inspector talks about the demotions and promotions in the 2012 Chicago guideSo I talked to a lady who wouldn't reveal her name but had a lot of things to say about Chicago restaurants. The anonymous editor of the Michelin Guide Chicago explained the decisions behind this year's starred ratings: On L2O’s demotion from three to one star: "Laurent Gras was a ..... Category: News - 16-11-2011Chicago Tribune Hakkasan Dubai opens in Jumeirah Emirates TowersCantonese fine-dining restaurant Hakkasan Dubai will officially open at Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel in Dubai International Financial Centre tomorrow (November 17). Guests can enter the new 152-cover restaurant via its long slate-stone corridor. An outside terrace features cascading ...... Category: News - 16-11-2011Hotelier Middle East New limited edition gold Stilton retails at £60 a sliceTry adding this to your after-dinner cheeseboard this Christmas - a Stilton made of real gold which costs £60 a slice. A whopping £6 price tag for a single cracker-sized wedge (if you divide the £60 slice into 10 portions) may seem a bit decadent to some but celebrities are already queuing up to ...... Category: News - 17-11-2011Independent Hunger primes the brain for junk foodThe first law of home economics states that the amount of food in a supermarket trolley rises in direct proportion to the shopper's hunger level. But while the danger is well known to shoppers who venture out on an empty stomach, how the problem arises in the brain has remained a mystery. In a ..... Category: News - 17-11-2011Guardian Alice Waters: China's food sector at critical junctureFor Alice Waters, buying organic food in China isn’t as difficult as she thought it would be. The chef — whose Berkeley, Calif., restaurant Chez Panisse is a symbol of locavore activism, serving only organic foods that are grown in season — is in China this week. At a diplomatic dinner whose ..... Category: News - 17-11-2011WSJ Waldorf Astoria Berlin and Pierre Gagnaire announce Chef de Cuisine and Pastry ChefWaldorf Astoria Berlin and Pierre Gagnaire today announced Roel Lintermans has been appointed as chef de cuisine and Nicolas Pelloie has been appointed as pastry chef of Les Solistes by Pierre Gagnaire at Waldorf Astoria Berlin, opening in spring 2012. Belgium-born Lintermans has worked with ...... Category: News - 18-11-2011Incentive Travel Pepsi NEXT, a mid-calorie soda, to debut in springFor those discerning drinkers who scoff at zero-calorie cola but are fussy about their figures, PepsiCo thinks its upcoming Pepsi NEXT low-sugar beverage hits the sweet spot in the middle. The drink, which has been in testing in Iowa and Wisconsin since July, has 60% less sugar than a standard ...... Category: News - 19-11-2011LA Times Aldi to sell £300 40-year old 'Glenbridge' Speyside malt whisky for £50A 40-year-old single malt whisky is to go on sale at a budget supermarket chain. Aldi is predicting queues of eager shoppers to snake out of the doors as 3,000 bottles of the bargain whisky, made at a Scottish distillery in 1971, go on sale across its 450 UK stores on 8 December. Aldi said today it is ...... Category: News - 22-11-2011Groupon demand almost finishes cupcake-makerRachel Brown, who runs the Need a Cake bakery in Reading, Berkshire, launched an offer via the money-saving website in the spring in which she offered a 75 per cent discount on 12 cupcakes, which normally cost £26. However Mrs Brown vastly under-estimated the popularity of the deal and was ..... Category: News - 22-11-2011Telegraph Marks & Spencer launches red Brussels sproutsHowever Marks & Spencer believes that it has come up with a way of increasing the popularity of Brussels sprouts – by turning them red and rebranding them as a health food. The high street chain will start selling red Brussels sprouts in time for Christmas in what it claims will be a first on the ...... Category: News - 22-11-2011Telegraph Great British Menu returns with an Olympic feast for 2012Great British Menu returns to BBC Two in spring 2012 for a seventh series - The Olympic Feast. This year’s challenge is to create a ground-breaking menu fit for Olympic heroes; celebrating the arrival of the London 2012 Olympics and demonstrating the extraordinary Olympian heights the talented chefs can reach. Category: News - 19-02-2012BBC The Cordon Bleu culinary school has a lavish new London flagshipEarly on in Julia Child's autobiography, My Life in France, the California-born chef recalls a significant encounter in 1950, one that would change her life – and American cooking – for ever. "Out of curiosity, I dropped by L'Ecole du Cordon Bleu, Paris's famous cooking school," she writes. "There, ..... Category: News - 03-02-2012Independent Economic woes dampen demand at annual Hospices de Beaune auctionA sale of Burgundy wine at the world's biggest charity auction on Sunday drew lower bids than in previous years as economic jitters hit home. The sale of the so-called President's Lot is a highlight of the annual "Hospices de Beaune" auction, at which rich wine enthusiasts bid for fine ..... Category: News - 22-11-2011Reuters London's raw food trend veers from lukewarm to coolIn one of my favourite episodes of Sex And The City, Samantha takes the girls to trendy new restaurant Raw, where nothing is cooked above 118 degrees. The food is predictably revolting, so much so that when a battle of wills breaks out between Samantha and another diner for the ...... Category: News - 22-11-2011Telegraph McDonald's unveils high-design concept store in FranceIn the battle between José Bové, the French antiglobalism activist, and his bête noire, McDonald’s, there’s no question that the fast-food giant emerged victorious. Today, France has effectively declared its love for Le Big Mac, becoming the No. 2 McDonald’s consumer in the ..... Category: News - 23-11-2011Fastcodesign.com £3,000!! The world's most expensive mince pieTake sugar derived from sperm whale secretions, holy water from Lourdes and the highest-grade platinum leaf. Combine with some vanilla beans and cinnamon and you've got the recipe for the world's most expensive mince pie - estimated to be worth £3000 ($4700). The Christmas pie created by ..... Category: News - 23-11-2011news.com.au Thomas Keller's sous-chef Anthony Secviar leaves the French Laundry after six yearsIn the restaurant world, six years is a long time for a restaurant to thrive, let alone a chef — especially a sous chef — to stay in a restaurant. But some restaurants are different, and well, the French Laundry is obviously one of those. Sous chef Anthony Secviar has been at ...... Category: News - 23-11-2011Inside Scoop SF Eating canned soup 'poses a chemical risk'People who eat canned soup should be aware that a chemical used to line the tin can leach into the food and end up in the body, say scientists. Tests on 75 volunteers revealed the compound bisphenol A (BPA) was readily ingested and detected in large amounts in the urine, the Journal of the ..... Category: News - 23-11-2011BBC Is Jewish food the next big trend in London?Mexican, schmexican. To judge by the eddies in the blog- and Twittersphere, the next London food trend is for Jewish nosh. The chic, bijou and recently-opened Deli West One is already drawing crowds to Marylebone, and is serving up salt-beef, smoked salmon, pickles and ..... Category: News - 24-11-2011Evening Standard Japan cuisine beats France as Michelin adds three to top tierhree more restaurants in the Tokyo region won their third Michelin star today, taking the total for Japan to 32 after 15 were named in the west of the country last month. That compares to 25 in France in 2011. Sushi Yoshitake in Tokyo joins the selection with three stars; Ryugin in Tokyo is promoted from .... Category: News - 29-11-2011Bloomberg Three quarters of British oysters contain norovirus, says FSAMore than three-quarters of British-grown oysters contain norovirus, new research from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has found. The study, which tested 39 UK growing beds across the UK, discovered that 76% of oysters had traces of the winter vomiting bug, with low levels of the virus, which ..... Category: News - 29-11-2011Caterer and Hotelkeeper McDonald's hits record $27bn turnoverThe company, which has enjoyed a stellar few years following the economic crisis, said that its turnover had increased by 12pc to $27bn, with net income increasing 11pc to $5.5bn. This is the ninth consecutive year that sales have increased after it suffered from a crisis of confidence at the end of the ..... Category: News - 24-01-2012Telegraph Britain's biggest restaurant throws open its doors 2,100 diners a nightBritain's biggest restaurant threw open its doors today - serving up to 2,100 diners a night. Za Za Bazaar - an all-you-can eat buffet in Bristol - will dish up over a ton of rice and nearly 5,000 chickens every week. The 30,000 sq ft harbourside eatery can seat over 1,000 customers at a time, with two sittings per ..... Category: News - 29-11-2011Daily Mail Tesco launches UK's hottest ever cheese with a fiery Scotch Bonnet chilliThe hottest cheese ever sold in Britain will be available from today. It combines traditional Cheddar with fiery Scotch Bonnet chilli peppers. Tesco warns that it is 'not for the faint-hearted'. The pepper is up to 50 times hotter than a jalapeno, and even its makers warn it will appeal only to those whose ..... Category: News - 30-11-2011Daily Mail Cleaned out after gambling on Groupon: Few firms realise the huge risksFor the past six months, Chris Harman’s pub has been packed to the rafters. Almost every night, all 35 seats have been taken, and his chicken liver and Cointreau pate, his marinated lamb kleftiko and his black tiger prawn stir-fry have been flying out of the kitchen. Good news, one might have ..... Category: News - 01-12-2011Daily Mail Phil Vettel gives Grant Achatz's Next Childhood menu 4 starsThis time, Next is selling memories. "Childhood," the latest menu from Next, Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas' shape-shifting restaurant, is a Proustian food journey that, although based on Achatz's and executive chef Dave Beran's childhoods, is designed to evoke yours. (Typically, I visit a restaurant ..... Category: News - 01-12-2011Chicago Tribune French fast food chain reveals Star Wars-inspired Darth Vader burgerStar Wars creator George Lucas has made millions from merchandise on the back of his famous films, but even he would surely never have dreamt of this. A French fast food chain has revealed a promotional snack which really has gone to the Dark Side, a Star Wars-inspired burger with completely black ..... Category: News - 06-01-201255-Bottle 'Superlot' Sells for $800,000Hong Kong’s wine scene ended the year on a Burgundy-flavored high note, with a 55-bottle “superlot” from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti selling for $813,333. A Chinese collector bought a 55-bottle superlot of burgundy for $800,000 at a year-end auction in Hong Kong, the most ...... Category: News - 13-12-2011CNN Joel Robuchon to spice up Air France's menuThe quality of airline food is often a gripe among passengers, though carriers seem to be stepping up their game. First, American Airlines teamed up with Marcus Samuelsson and Richard Sandoval. Now, Joel Robuchon is going to be the new face of Air France's food. French-born Robuchon, the ..... Category: News - 04-12-2011Huffington Post Christian Vanneque, owner of the world's most expensive bottle of white wineFor 62-year-old Christian Vanneque, a love of wine has taken him to one particularly unexpected place: the Guinness Book of World Records. Vanneque became the owner of the most expensive bottle of white wine ever sold when he paid US$117,000 for a bottle of 1811 Château ..... Category: News - 05-12-2011CNN German three-star chef Juan Amador to open restaurant in Abu Dhabi next FebruaryAmador Restaurant and Cellar, revered three Michelin-starred Chef Juan Amador's new signature fine dining concept at Abu Dhabi's five-star Park Rotana hotel, will formally open its doors on February 9th and become a focal part of the emirate's fourth Gourmet Abu Dhabi culinary ..... Category: News - 05-12-2011ameinfo.com Fat Duck rejects claims it reacted slowly to norovirus outbreakHeston Blumenthal has hit back at a report claiming that many of the diners affected by the norovirus outbreak at the Fat Duck in 2009 could have been spared if the restaurant had acted sooner. Blumenthal closed his iconic three-Michelin-starred restaurant for two weeks in February 2009 after ..... Category: News - 07-12-2011Caterersearch Nigella: "My love affair with salted caramel"Ticking off the holy trinity of sugar, salt and fat – salted caramel is the class A drug of the confectionery world, says Nigella Lawson. I am in the middle of a love affair with salted caramel. It’s heady, it’s passionate, it may – like the stalker’s obsessive focus – not be entirely healthy, but I take the view that ..... Category: News - 07-12-2011Stylist Magazine Grant Achatz's Next Restaurant to sell Season ticketsGrant Achatz's Next Restaurant in Chicago has already been pretty genre-bending in the restaurant world. Few other restaurants change concepts every three months (actually, the only one we can think of that is sort of similar is Park Avenue Summer/Autumn/Winter/Spring which changes decor and ...... Category: News - 08-12-2011Huffington Post 'What's Hot in 2012" chef survey shows local sourcing, kids' nutrition as top menu trendsThe National Restaurant Association’s “What’s Hot in 2012” survey of nearly 1,800 professional chefs – members of the American Culinary Federation (ACF) – reveals that children’s nutrition and local sourcing will be the hottest trends on restaurant menus this coming year. The chefs also identified ..... Category: News - 08-12-2011National Restaurant Association Over 10,000 diners search for l'Atelier de Joël Robuchon after BBC's MasterchefMasterchef has long provided inspiration to amateur cooks looking to get more adventurous with their food. But during the latest show, MasterChef: The Professionals, viewers felt like having the hard work done for them, and logged on in record numbers to book a table online at a top fine ..... Category: News - 09-12-2011Eat Out Magazine Women tell nearly 500 lies a year about eatingAccording to a British survey, women tell about 500 lies about their food consumption every year. The most common fibs are about their intake of sweets, cheese, bread, chips and burgers. Did you just have a healthy salad for lunch, then nothing more than the kids' leftovers and one glass of ..... Category: News - 06-01-2012NZ Herald News Beef: the latest object of gourmet obsessionA young man in a black apron is sawing into half a cow while Debussy's Clair de Lune plays quietly in the background. The contrast between the gentle music and the violent butchery makes me feel I have stumbled on to the set of The Godfather. Actually, I am in Allens of Mayfair, the oldest butcher's in ..... Category: News - 14-12-2011Telegraph US Food companies that spent the most on lobbying in 2011A lot of the attention on the intersection between food and the U.S. legislature recently has focused on the impending revision of the Farm Bill. Thousands of jobs and the health of millions ride on the billions of dollars that will be doled out by the Farm Bill, so it's an understandable target of interest. But the ..... Category: News - 14-12-2011Huffington Post Hakkasan to open in four US cities as restaurant goes globalHakkasan Ltd., the Chinese- restaurant business that holds a Michelin star for each of its London sites, plans to expand across the U.S. next year, with venues in four cities. Outlets are planned in four cities: New York, on West 43rd Street; San Francisco, at One Kearny; Los Angeles, on North Beverly Drive; and in ..... Category: News - 14-12-2011Bloomberg Noma launches travel guideCopenhagen restaurant Noma, widely regarded as among the world's top gastronomic establishments, has launched a city guide. The restaurant announced November 30 that it has created a guidebook to the Danish capital in a tie-up with travel booking site Momondo, which is also based in ..... Category: News - 14-12-2011Yahoo The average Briton eats 2,500 takeaways in their lifetime (that's 46 per year!)Britain's love for fast food continues to grow, with latest research showing a typical adult will get through around 2,453 takeaways in their lifetime. And researchers working for the Benenden Healthcare Society estimated the average Briton will spend a whopping £17,250 on ....... Category: News - 15-12-2011Food and drink highlights of 2011Historic food was terribly up-to-date in 2011, with the opening of Dinner, Heston Blumenthal’s first London outpost, serving dishes inspired by fourteenth to twentieth century recipes. Shortly afterwards came the similarly themed Gilbert Scott in the reopened St Pancras Hotel, now part of the ...... Category: News - 15-12-2011Telegraph Three star Meadowood to close January 1 for huge remodelOn January 1, St. Helena's three-Michelin-starred The Restaurant at Meadowood is going to close its doors for just over two months. The restaurant's expansive kitchen, where executive chef Christopher Kostow presides, will undergo a major remodel to increase efficiency even further with more ...... Category: News - 15-12-2011Eater SF Australian celebrity names and shames no-shows on TwitterCelebrity chef Michael Moore has taken to Twitter to "name and shame" patrons who fail to show up for restaurant bookings. The head chef at Sydney's acclaimed Summit restaurant began tweeting names on Friday night and was soon joined by other big names in the industry. Moore, a ..... Category: News - 19-12-2011ninemsn.com Jamie Oliver scores fourth Christmas No 1Don't want to know what that book-shaped present is under the tree? Then you might want to stop reading here, because most of the nation looks set to be unwrapping the latest cookery bible from Jamie Oliver this Christmas after the formerly naked chef landed his fourth festive number one with Jamie's ..... Category: News - 21-12-2011Guardian Celebrity butcher Jack O’Shea escorted from Selfridges in foie gras rowJack O’Shea, who provides prime meat to some of London’s most exclusive restaurants and celebrity chefs, admitted he operated a "secret society" selling the French delicacy at his concession in the food hall in defiance of animal rights pressure. The company banned the sale of foie gras from its stores two ..... Category: News - 23-12-2011Telegraph English sparkling wine comes of age with French boostThe first English sparkling wine made by a French champagne maker is about to go on sale, providing the clearest sign yet that British fizz is coming of age. Meonhill, made from grapes grown from French rootstocks planted in Hampshire, will be available early in 2012. Until now French wine makers have ..... Category: News - 26-12-2011Guardian White wine better match for cheese than redProfessional tasters say would-be gastronomes have been getting it wrong for decades by continuing to drink red wine after the main course. Reds, which are generally more strongly flavoured than whites, dominate all but the most robust cheese, they say. Instead, white wines should be drunk because ...... Category: News - 26-12-2011Telegraph Chocolate will become an expensive luxury item due to climate changeBritain has a greater variety of chocolate bars and treats on sale than any other country in the world and is one of the biggest consumers of chocolate per capita. But prices are rising due to growing demand in the emerging nations like China and conflict in the countries where the crop is ...... Category: News - 26-12-2011Telegraph The end of battery farms in Britain - but not in EuropeFarmers have freed more than 80 million hens from especially cruel and cramped lives in one of the most significant changes to animal welfare legislation in decades: the end of battery cages. But while almost all British egg producers will be compliant with the new EU-wide law – which will ban the ..... Category: News - 27-12-2011Independent France approves tax on sugary drinksFrance's top constitutional body today approved a new tax on sugary drinks that aims to fight obesity while giving a boost to state coffers. The Constitutional Council approved the new soda tax, announced in August as part of the government's fight against obesity and within the framework of a ..... Category: News - 28-12-2011rte.ie Trans fats linked to brain shrinkageResearchers have found that there's a part of your body that might shrink when you eat too much fast food. Unfortunately, it's your brain. People with diets high in trans fats are more likely to experience the kind of brain shrink-age associated with Alzheimer's disease than people who consume ..... Category: News - 30-12-2011Vancouver Sun Charlie Trotter to close his world-renowed Chicago eateryCharlie Trotter is calling it quits. The celebrated Chicago chef told the Sun-Times in an exclusive interview that he will close his eponymous restaurant on Armitage in August, after 25 years in business. Trotter, 52, is calling this a “sabbatical,” though. He plans to travel the world with his ..... Category: News - 01-01-2012Chicago Times British family invents chocolate that doesn't meltA BRITISH family are set to become millionaires after inventing the world's first chocolate that doesn't melt. Dad Stephen Lennie created the flexible chocolate at his kitchen table as a surprise for his kids. More than a million pounds worth of the product, called Magic Choc, sold as children's stocking ..... Category: News - 03-01-2012Sun January closures at Thomas Keller restaurantsBeginning Jan. 1, three of Chef Thomas Keller’s Yountville locations will close temporarily for renovations. The French Laundry will perform various repairs during its annual winter closure and will reopen on Jan. 19. Bouchon Bakery will be closed until the end of the month, and Ad Hoc plans to ..... Category: News - 03-01-2012Napa Valley Register Man completes quest to eat slice from every Manhattan pizza jointNew York-native Colin Hagendorf stumbled across a pizza place in Colorado claiming to serve up a perfect New York-style slice. "The pizza was really bad," he told The New York Daily News. "When I got back to New York I couldn't stop talking about how bad it was. My friend told me that he had ..... Category: News - 03-01-2012Huffington Post Japan snags a 600-pound, $700,000 tunaJapan’s fishing industry got off to a stirring start in 2012, with a new record price for a bluefin tuna. Weighing in at a hefty 269 kilograms (nearly 600 pounds), the fish, caught off the coast of northern Oma, Aomori prefecture, was sold for 56.5 million yen, or about $736,700, at the year’s first ..... Category: News - 05-01-2012Wall Street Journal Two people die of death cap mushrooms, meal was prepared in a restaurant kitchenTHE New Year's Eve meal that contained death cap mushrooms and killed two people was prepared in a restaurant kitchen, Canberra health authorities said last night. Chef Liu Jun, 38, who made the meal at the Chinese bistro in the Harmonie German Club, and a Chinese woman, Tsou Hsiang, 52, died from ..... Category: News - 05-01-2012Sydney Morning Herald Le Gavroche and Gidleigh Park top Harden's UK Restaurant SurveyLe Gavroche is the top London restaurant, while Gidleigh Park has retained its place as the top restaurant in the rest of the UK, according to the 2012 edition of Harden's UK Restaurant Survey. The guide, which is based on an annual survey of 8,000 restaurant-goers and was published ...... Category: News - 05-01-2012Caterersearch 3-Star Chef Anne-Sophie Pic to Open Paris RestaurantAnne-Sophie Pic, chef of the three Michelin star Maison Pic in Valence since 1998, will open a restaurant in Paris. Pic tells L'Hôtellerie Restauration that the restaurant, located in the 1st Arrondissement — just steps from the Louvre and around the corner from Daniel Rose's Spring — will be ...... Category: News - 07-01-2012Eater Eating Christmas trees at the 'world's best restaurant'Rene Redzepi is the Willy Wonka of food science, conducting gastronomic experiments so popular that customers fly round the world to eat at his £150-a-head Copenhagen restaurant.If you have just thrown out your Christmas tree, may I make a suggestion? Next year don't dump it, burn it or ..... Category: News - 07-01-2012BBC Keith Floyd heading to big screen?THE eventful life of hell-raiser celebrity chef Keith Floyd is set to be turned into a major film. Producers want to tell the story of the maverick culinary star and hope to land versatile Welsh actor Rhys Ifans for the lead role of Floyd, who died in 2009. The flamboyant chef became a household name in the ...... Category: News - 09-01-2012Daily Express World's most expensive tea grown in Chinese panda pooChinese entrepreneur An Yanshi is convinced he has found the key ingredient to produce the world's most expensive tea -- panda poo. The former calligraphy teacher has purchased 11 tonnes of excrement from a panda breeding centre to fertilise a tea crop in the mountains of Sichuan province in ....... Category: News - 10-01-2012Google News Sri Lanka to participate in Bocuse d'Or competition for the first time in historyThe Bocuse d’Or Sri Lanka , along with the support of The Sri lanka Tourism and hoteliers has selected Buddika Samarasekara the chef of Colombo Hilton and Isuru Sampath as the apprentice chef of Colombo Hilton out of 11 finalist in Sri Lanka for the finals of Bocuse d’Or Asia, 2012. The first stage of ...... Category: News - 10-01-2012news.lk New smart fridge orders your food and then turns on the ovenThe LG Smart Manager fridge, which goes on sale in the UK this year for an estimated £2,000, has a large LCD touchscreen and camera, as well as an internet connection which allows it to download recipes. Revealing the technology at the Consumer Electronics Show, LG hopes the fridge will link up to ..... Category: News - 10-01-2012Evening Standard Grant Achatz on Next's El Bulli menu"It starts with the actual personal connection between myself and Ferran and the fact that Chef Dave and I shared a meal in 2007 at El Bulli that was profound. For him and I, it was like a pilgrimage to a restaurant that we had heard so much about, and I think that was my ....... Category: News - 11-01-2012Time Out Chicago Red wine-heart research slammed with fraud chargesA University of Connecticut researcher who studied the link between aging and a substance found in red wine has committed more than 100 acts of data fabrication and falsification, the university said Wednesday, throwing much of his work into doubt. Dipak K. Das, who directed the ..... Category: News - 12-01-2012Reuters Is 'fatty' the sixth taste?Growing up, many of us were taught that the tongue could detect four essential tastes: sweet, salty, sour and bitter. Everything else, we were told, was a product of aroma and texture. But it always seemed like those four weren't enough to explain the whole range of tastes... could it really be that ..... Category: News - 14-01-2012Huffington Post Burger King tests Whopper delivery service in US to help salesBurger King Holdings Inc. (BKC), the operator of 7,500 fast-food restaurants in the U.S. and Canada, is trying out delivery service at some stores in Virginia and Maryland as a possible way to boost sales. “We are currently testing the service to bring this convenience to the U.S.,” Kristen Hauser, a ...... Category: News - 15-01-2012Bloomberg The St. Regis Abu Dhabi unveils the Emirate's first Gary Rhodes restaurantThe St. Regis Abu Dhabi announced today the future opening of Rhodes 44 by Michelin-starred celebrity chef Gary Rhodes. Scheduled to open early 2012 as part of the iconic Nation Towers development on the Corniche, Rhodes 44 at the St. Regis Abu Dhabi will offer signature contemporary cuisine with ..... Category: News - 16-01-2012zawya.com Harrods to launch restaurants with the Galvins and Richard CorriganLondon department store Harrods is set to open two new restaurants this spring together with chefs Chris and Jeff Galvin and Richard Corrigan. The iconic Knightsbridge store, which last year hosted the French Laundry pop-up restaurant with Thomas Keller, has teamed up with the chefs to launch ..... Category: News - 16-01-2012Caterersearch Can China drink more French wine than France is producing?Can China drink more French Bordeaux than France is producing? Apparently so, if statistics for top Bordeaux consumption in China are correct – by a factor of 8 or 9. The Shanghai Times reported one enterprising merchant is importing bulk reds through Hong Kong, then bottling them aboard a ...... Category: News - 16-01-2012AsiaSentinel Eleven Madison Park releases cookbook for iPadToday, the Eleven Madison Park cookbook was released on the iPad at $26, a 16% discount from the hardcover version on Amazon.com for $31 and a 48% discount from version sold in bookstores for $50. We’ll call this one a DEAL and we’ll do our best to make the same statement for other respectable ..... Category: News - 17-01-2012The Bad Deal High-tech cocktail lounge is opening at Momofuku Ssam BarA little liquid nitrogen with your manhattan? Warm up that drink with a foot-tall flame? Booker & Dax, a new bar that places technology squarely in the service of mixology, has you covered. Situated in the back of David Chang’s Momofuku Ssam Bar in the East Village, where the original Milk Bar once was, the ..... Category: News - 17-01-2012New York Times Blur's Alex James in Twitter controversy after fast food endorsementAlex James, bassist for Britpop legends Blur, has caused a massive stir on Twitter after using his Sun Food column to praise fast-food chains McDonalds and KFC. James has for a long time written articles for British tabloid paper The Sun about food, but has now landed himself in the middle of a ..... Category: News - 18-01-2012stereoboard.com America's 50 most powerful people in food for 2012Last January we published our first annual list of America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food (2011). It's that time again. Many of last year's names appear on this year's roster, but there are some new names, too, which of course means that some of last year's are missing. Some folks moved up the ...... Category: News - 19-01-2012Daily Meal Grant Achatz tells his plans for the not-too-distant futureGrant Achatz heads the inimitable Alinea, the reinventionist Next, and the sciencey cocktail bar The Aviary. Although it’s impossible to fully catch up with the constantly-in-motion Achatz, Dish checked in with him this week. What do you see happening for you in the next few years? Grant Achatz: ...... Category: News - 19-01-2012Chicago Magazine The guide goes online! - Michelin's answer to shrinking circulationAlthough highly regarded, the Michelin Guides have sunk in circulation over the past decade. Media reports peg the decline from 2000 to 2010 as being from more than 400,000 copies to just 107,000. To counter this bleak trend, it seems the Guide concept will shortly undergo a transformation ..... Category: News - 23-01-2012Tyrepress.com There's a new food scene driven by tweets and pop-upsIt used to be a common complaint from foreign visitors. "Everything we ate in pubs was greasy," whined a German friend after a trip here a few years ago. "You do have shortbread, I suppose," conceded my Italian flatmate. Of course, things have changed a lot in the past decade: London has become a ..... Category: News - 27-01-2012Evening Standard Wolfgang Puck to receive James Beard Foundation's Lifetime Achievement AwardThe so-called Oscars of the food world this year will give the ultimate nod to a man best known for feeding celebrities at the real Oscars. The James Beard Foundation's Lifetime Achievement award this year will go to Wolfgang Puck, whose menu for The Academy Awards Governors Ball is almost as ..... Category: News - 31-01-2012Huffington Post Cover Lucky Peach Issue 3 revealedThe cover art for the third issue of Lucky Peach arrived over the Twitter wires today, and it's mildly amusing-confusing. You know how lots of young chefs have pig butchery diagrams tattooed on their bodies? Well, here's a dismembered leg o' pork getting a human butchery diagram tattooed on its rear by a ..... Category: News - 01-02-2012Grubstreet Raymond Blanc to be honoured with Lifetime Achievement awardaymond Blanc OBE is to be honoured for his lengthy and succesful culinary career with the presentation of a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at Hotelympia on Monday 27th February. The award recognises the "most outstanding demonstration of services to the catering and hospitality industry" ..... Category: News - 20-02-2012Eat Out Magazine |
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