{"id":2818,"date":"2011-09-02T09:37:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T09:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2011-09-02T09:37:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T09:37:57","slug":"this-weeks-food-news-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2011\/09\/02\/this-weeks-food-news-25\/","title":{"rendered":"This week’s food news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Riot restaurant named best in London
\n<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/a>During last month’s riots The Ledbury was beset by looters and lunatics, its customers robbed<\/a>\u00a0and its staff called upon to defend them with spatulas<\/a>. This week it was named\u00a0the best restaurant in London<\/a> in the 2012 Harden’s guide. Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s was voted the most disappointing.<\/p>\n

Child obesity climbs in Italy
\n<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/a>We still think of Italy as being a country with a healthy ‘Mediterranean’ diet, but this week it was reported that 36% of Italian children<\/a> are either overweight or obese by the age of 8. Coupled with recent news that the best-selling shop-bought pizza in Italy is German-owned, Manchester-made Dr Oetker<\/a>, you have to wonder if perhaps France isn’t the only country suffering a gastronomic crisis.<\/p>\n

Rock and lobster roll – a rockstar cookbook comes out
\n<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/a>Photographer Patrice de Villiers has created a new cookbook in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust. Love Music, Love Food: The Rockstar Cookbook<\/a>\u00a0collects musicians’ tales of food and cooking, with photographs of the likes of Paloma Faith lying on a paella beach. As you do.<\/p>\n

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Other food news this week:
\n<\/span><\/strong>* Obama’s favourite chef, Wolfgang Puck<\/a>, opens in London.
\n* Warnings about salt levels in bread<\/a>.
\n* French Laundry popping up at Harrods. For \u00a3250 a head<\/a>.
\n* Where are all the ice cream vans<\/a>?
\n* Waitrose with wines from India<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Blog of the week:
\n<\/span><\/strong>* I’ve recently discovered the charming and beautifully photographed Food From Flossie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Website of the week:
\n<\/span><\/strong>* Trufl<\/a> is a fab website for rootling out great deals on restaurants, hotels etc.<\/p>\n

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Video of the week:
\n<\/span><\/strong>* They might be in the middle of a gastronomic and political crisis, but the Italians still know how to make a damn fine automobile:<\/p>\n