{"id":2780,"date":"2011-08-19T08:32:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T08:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2011-08-19T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T08:32:57","slug":"this-weeks-food-news-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2011\/08\/19\/this-weeks-food-news-23\/","title":{"rendered":"This week’s food news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Middle-ground supermarkets struggle
\n<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/a>An interesting divide<\/a> is occurring during these pinched times. At the top end Waitrose and Marks and Sparks are doing well, and at the bottom the likes of Lidl and Aldi are also having a bumper year. Everyone else, it seems, is having a bit of a miserable time – a strong example of the increasingly yawning rich\/poor divide in this country.<\/p>\n

Chef assaults staff after visit from AA Gill
\n<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/a>A chef was in barney this week after pushing an employee down the stairs. During this year’s Hay Festival AA Gill visited Hay’s own River Cafe<\/a>\u00a0and, when asked how his meal was, pronounced it ‘disgusting’. Cue a livid chef who reckons he makes Gordon Ramsay look tame<\/a>, and a member of staff tumbling down the stairs. The chef was given an 18-month conditional discharge.<\/p>\n

Domino’s launches gourmet range
\n<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/a>Domino’s, merchants of greasy, plastic cheese on greasier, somehow fudgy bread have launched a ‘gourmet’ range <\/a>to appeal to ‘food snobs’. The Rustica has bacon on it, that favourite Italian ingredient, while the Florentine has feta cheese slapped on top. So, Young and Foodish<\/a>, when’s the next pizza tuesday?<\/p>\n

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Other food news this week:
\n<\/span><\/strong>* Alex James eats human sausages<\/a>.
\n* Young’s to launch Jamie Oliver range<\/a>.
\n* Food Network agrees to stop cooking shark meat<\/a>.
\n* Tim Hayward’s bakery, Fitzbillies, opens today in Cambridge<\/a>.
\n* Panda gets a shock<\/a> when shown the bill at the Gilbert Scott (via @chrispople<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Piece of the week:
\n<\/span><\/strong>* Sam Herlihy, ex-Hope Of The States<\/a> frontman, writes just sublimely. In this piece<\/a> he somehow weaves a trip to Italy with a magnificent pwning of Chris Martin.<\/p>\n

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Video of the week:
\n<\/span><\/strong>* I wish David Attenborough was more like this guy:<\/p>\n