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NYC Food Co-Op Debates Banning Food From Israel
Vote with your stomach! A New York City neighborhood food co-op with 16,000 members is debating whether to ban food from Israel.
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Woman Named Beer Banned from Male Only Beer Competition
With the last name Beer you’d think Rachel Beer was destined to make a good brew. Sadly, she may never know because the homebrewer was banned from a popular tasting competition in her native New Zealand due to being a woman.
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Scandal after Sommelier Creates Fake Blog in Retaliation for Bad Yelp Review
Talk about a drama filled mess. An internationally known sommelier decided to take matters into his own hands after receiving a bad review on Yelp and now it looks like the dispute will be settled in court. Cecelia Groark gave Chicago area wine appreciation company Bottled Grapes a bad review on the popular review site.
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4th Busiest Restaurant in the US Sickens Dozens
With a name like Bob Chinn’s Crab House, aren’t you just asking for trouble? But we digress– the Chicago-area restaurant is being blamed for an outbreak of flu-like symptoms, so far some 50 people have been reported to be sickened and health officials are bracing for more.
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Restaurant Owner Takes to Facebook to Blast Yelp Reviewer
File this under the category of how not to treat your customers, no matter how rude they are– because it just “ain’t” worth it. Atlanta restaurant Boners BBQ decided it would be smart to take to Facebook to blast a customer who wrote a not so nice Yelp review.
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Endangered Tiger Carcass Seized at Vietnam Restaurant
Police in Hanoi seized an endangered wild tiger carcass from a restaurant where it was being boiled down to make an expensive traditional medicine. According to the Tuoi Tre newspaper the restaurant’s owner purchased the 330-pound animal for $8,500 and was rendering it down into a paste. He was going to sell the “medicine” for ...
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Australian Chef Sues Country Club for Fosters jokes
Crikey! A chef from Australia has had enough with the land down under jokes. Richard Jones is suing the exclusive Nashville area Belle Meade Country Club, claiming his supervisor berated him and eventually fired him for being Australian.
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UK Celeb Chef Caught Shoplifting
A British celebrity chef is in hot water after being arrested for shoplifting cheese and wine at a UK supermarket. Chef Antony Worrall Thompson, best known for his appearances on British TV including “I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!” was reportedly caught stealing from a Tesco grocery store in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
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Chef, Butcher at Upscale Dubai Hotel Accused of Taking Bribes
The head chef and the butcher at the iconic Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai was in court Sunday, charged with taking nearly $250,000 in kickbacks in return for buying poor-quality food at inflated prices from four suppliers.