{"id":1653,"date":"2010-09-03T08:31:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T08:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2010-09-03T08:31:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T08:31:43","slug":"this-weeks-food-news-3rd-september-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2010\/09\/03\/this-weeks-food-news-3rd-september-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"This week’s food news | 3rd September 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
The restaurant that costs an arm and a leg Carluccio’s to be taken over Ramsay under fire again *****<\/strong><\/p>\n Other food news this week: *****<\/p>\n Blog of the week: *****<\/p>\n Recipe of the week: *****<\/p>\n Video of the week:
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/a>A restaurant in Berlin is calling for donors to dinate a part of their body in the name of dinner. It is also in the market for ‘an open-minded surgeon’. Flim\u00e9<\/a> claims to be inspired by the eating practices of the Brazilian Waricaca tribe, which performs ‘compassionate cannibalism’. Most people are now just seeing it as a ‘tasteless PR stunt’<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/a>The restaurant chain Carluccio’s is being bought by a Dubai-based firm for \u00a390.3m<\/a>, boosting the company’s share prices by 44%. Some will be sad to see a once great restaurant beginning an inevitable slide towards loveless homogeneity. Others will have noticed that this happened a while ago. Meeee-ow.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/a>Continuing the slightly gossipy feel of this week’s round-up (I’m sorry but I’m sick of writing about junk food<\/a> and inflation<\/a>), it was alleged this week<\/a> that Gordon Ramsay has been employing illegal immigrants at his centralised food plant where (you have to admire the Sun for this one) “the telly chef cooks up ready meals for his posh restaurants.” Twitterites should follow this guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>* Deep-fried beer invented in Texas<\/a>. Brilliant.
\n* Drink milk to get rid of garlic breath, say researchers<\/a>.
\n* Borough Market leaseholders sue trust in lease row<\/a>.
\n* Don’t trust labels on ‘fresh’ food, says Alex Renton<\/a>.
\n* The diet that protects your heart<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span>This is a really well-written piece on what it means to be a ‘foodie’<\/a>. What do you think of the word?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span>A beautiful golden beetroot soup<\/a> from French Press Memos.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span>A sleepwalking dog.<\/p>\n