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Review Of The Dinner Reviews

Found by on Thursday, 10th February 2011
Hot Dinners
» Hot Dinners
Almost a perfect score for ‘Dinner’ from critics. Looks like Heston’s won this round.
“Blumenthal’s first London restaurant has 140 covers, serving lunch, dinner and afternoon tea. Ashley Palmer-Watts who’s been at the Fat Duck for nine years is head chef. Promised by Blumenthal to be an “upmarket bistro” featuring “historic British-influenced dishes” there will also be the chance to book private dining rooms to enjoy your own feast in the style of Heston’s Channel 4 shows.“
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Major Street Food Probe After Tourist’s Toxic Seaweed Death

Found by on Thursday, 10th February 2011
Chef Sandwich
» Chef Sandwich
“A quick update on my last blog about the tragic death of New Zealand backpacker Sarah Carter, who died after eating toxic seaweed at a street food stall in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Health officials are launching a full-scale investigation of food outlets in the city’s famous Night Bazaar, where Sarah, 23, (pictured centre) and her two friends Amanda Eliason, 24, (left) and Emma Langlands, 23, (right) ate. Amanda, who also ate the seaweed, had emergency heart surgery and is now believed to be out of danger. Emma, who ordered a different meal from the stall, suffered food poisoning but is not seriously ill.”
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Wake and bake

Found by on Thursday, 10th February 2011
The Telegraph
» The Telegraph
You can keep your automatic bread maker – this is my kind of alarm clock!
“Wake up and smell the bacon – with an alarm clock that allows you to do just that. This new alarm clock wakes you up with the smell of freshly cooked bacon. Wake n Bacon is the only alarm clock that not only wakes you up but also cooks you breakfast in bed.”
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Starter for ten: interview with Heston Blumenthal

Found by on Wednesday, 9th February 2011
Square Meal
» Square Meal
“Ever wondered what makes Heston Blumenthal tick? Square Meal caught up with the chef of the moment and subjected him to a burst of quick-fire questioning.”
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The kids’ table: Are covert veggies the right approach?

Found by on Wednesday, 9th February 2011
Chicago Tribune
» Chicago Tribune
“One way to get kids to eat their vegetables is to hide them in other foods – a stealth approach popularized a few years ago by Jessica Seinfeld, who wrote “Deceptively Delicious.” The book features recipes for green chicken nuggets doused in a broccoli puree, mac and cheese spiked with cauliflower puree, brownies with pureed spinach and other kid-friendly foods with hidden vegetables.”
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Samosa café opens first site in Reading

Found by on Wednesday, 9th February 2011
Big Hospitality
» Big Hospitality
*Nom-nom!*
“An Indian couple have opened their first Samosa café in Reading, with the aim of bringing ‘authentic Indian street food to UK consumers throughout the day. Husband and wife Ravi and Jaspinder Sidhu said their aim is to change the way people eat Indian food, and they hope to rapidly expand their concept in other UK locations. “Within the next six months we are looking to open two to three new Jaswa restaurants in larger cities in the UK,” they told BigHospitality”
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Dinner, London, Restaurant review

Found by on Wednesday, 9th February 2011
The Telegraph, Matthew Norman
» The Telegraph, Matthew Norman
Men and meat fruit. Haven’t seen an hysteria like this since I brought cake into an office filled with women on January diets
“If the biggest box-office draw in the business was racked by first-night nerves on Monday evening, he made a fine stab at masking it. One minute posing happily for a photo with the neighbouring table, the next squatting beside ours to deliver passionate, rapid-fire discourses about the provenance of his intriguingly historical menu, Heston Blumenthal appeared to be relishing his West End debut. Small wonder. It has taken a long time for the lieber Meister of snail porridge to bring his act to town, but Dinner – a sibling to the Fat Duck and the Hind’s Head in Bray – is more than worth the wait. In fact, darlings, it’s a theatrical tour de force.”
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Child diet ‘linked to IQ’

Found by on Wednesday, 9th February 2011
NHS Choices
» NHS Choices
And the real truth behind the headlines that eating junk food makes children thick, as parroted by Daily Mail, Telegraph, BBC. Hell, even Fox News.
“The news story is based on a dietary study that following over 7,000 children. The study compiled information on how often the children ate different food groups at the ages of three, four, seven and eight-and-a-half years old. The researchers also assessed the children?s IQ at the final assessment, when they were eight-and-a-half, to see whether there was any association between diet and intelligence.”
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‘Naked chef’ to debut on Hong Kong adult channel

Found by on Wednesday, 9th February 2011
The Independent
» The Independent
“A Hong Kong adult channel is set to debut a cooking show headlined by a nude host who will prepare Cantonese dishes wearing a transparent apron – an apparent bid to encourage more men to cook. Host Flora Cheung will start each 30-minute show shopping for fresh ingredients in the city’s famous wet markets, undressing once she is back in the privacy of her studio kitchen, the South China Morning Post reported. Cheung, who admits she has never worked in a restaurant kitchen, said she hopes the risque show will draw more men into the kitchen. The first episode is set to air later this month.”
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UK governments have failed to support organic farming, says report

Found by on Wednesday, 9th February 2011
The Guardian
» The Guardian
“Successive British governments have failed to support and promote the organic food and farming sector, according to a damning report. Their failures have left the UK an isolated “lazy man of Europe”. Research from the UK’s biggest organic body highlights the low priority given to the sector by “diffident” policy-makers, which it claims led to sales of organic food and drink slumping in the recession while other major European organic markets successfully weathered the storm.”
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