Renowned British chef Blumenthal apologizes to diners ill after eating at his restaurant

October 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Brit chef Jamie Oliver, nicknamed The Naked Chef, is said to have eaten sheep's penis and intestine during a visit to an American Indian tribe. Oliver, 34, who is travelling the length and breadth of the US in search of interesting recipes, was in Arizona filming his new programme Jamie's American Road Trip, when he tried the traditional delicacies.

October 1st, 2009 NYC's famed Four Seasons restaurant gets new chefNEW YORK — New York City's famed Four Seasons restaurant, which invented the "power lunch," has a new executive chef. The 50-year-old Manhattan establishment announced Thursday that it hired Fabio Trabocchi (trah-BOH'-kee), an Italian who is already a star of international kitchens.

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - Prince William has reportedly been taking girlfriend Kate Middleton at a London restaurant where food is served in Pitch Dark. The couple are said to have become huge fans of 'Dans Le Noir?', where diners are told their tastebuds are heightened when they cannot see.

September 24th, 2009 DC's new Michelle Melt: Turkey burger with a causeWASHINGTON — There's a new burger in town, and it's got Michelle Obama's name on it. The "Michelle Melt" turkey burger at Good Stuff Eatery was unveiled Thursday by chef Spike Mendelsohn, a former contestant on Bravo's "Top Chef" competition.

August 24th, 2009 Obamas' Filipina chef at home with healthy waysMANILA, Philippines — For the White House chef, serving homegrown vegetables straight from the garden is just like preparing food in her native Philippines — healthy and simple. Filipino-American Cristeta Pasia-Comerford, the first woman and first minority to serve as the executive chef in the White House, credited the first lady for making sure her family eats steamed, organic vegetables from the garden Michelle Obama planted in April.

August 24th, 2009 Buffalo wing celebration in, where else, BuffaloBUFFALO, N.Y. — If you're looking for the place where buffalo wings started, you'll naturally want to head to Buffalo, N.Y.

August 21st, 2009 LONDON - 'Nyotaimori', a 'female body presentation' that involves the eating of sushi off naked females, and which is a favourite of the Japanese elite, is now being offered to Londoners also. The dish, which comes at a high cost of 250 pounds per head, is being introduced in London by an enterprising British duo, founder Nigel Carlos and Japanese-raised Nick Hepburn.

July 3rd, 2009 LONDON - A West End style restaurant called "The Clink" has opened up inside Her Majesty's Prison High Down. iners can eat a two-course meal at the prison restaurant in Sutton, Surrey, for six pounds, reports The Telegraph.

June 27th, 2009 LONDON - A teenage Brazilian girl leapt off the Eiffel Tower, and crashed on to the roof of a packed restaurant 180ft below. The 18-year-old girl had broken through a security barrier on the Paris landmark's 350ft-high second tier, and jumped to her death as her brother frantically tried to stop her.

April 9th, 2009 LONDON - British chef Gordon Ramsay has named actors Brad Pitt and George Clooney among the worst celebrity guests he has ever had to entertain. Ramsay, 42, further revealed that the two actors, who had gone in to eat at his Claridges restaurant in London's Mayfair, while filming Ocean's Eleven in 2001, had left the five-star eatery in an unhappy state after a small mishap in the kitchen forced them to leave.

April 3rd, 2009 LONDON - The French chef, who will cook Nato lunch for Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama, has said that Brit cook Jamie Oliver's palatable dishes are no match to the French cuisine, which he described as the "most exceptional in the world". When asked about Oliver's culinary talent, Emile Jung, who runs the celebrated Michelin two-starred restaurant, Le Crocodile, in Strasbourg, France, admitted that he had heard about Britain's best-loved chef.

March 28th, 2009 LONDON - World leaders coming for next week's Group of 20 (G20) summit in London will be handed a modest gift pack and fed on cheap and simple meals. It is entirely in keeping with the sombre nature of the occasion - a meeting of the world's most powerful men and women to find ways to tackle the global financial and economic crisis.

March 22nd, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has asked celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to prepare a 10-course meal for President Barack Obama and other world leaders when they visit London in April for the G20 meet. The British chef had won the support of many for his role in campaigning against the use of processed foods, especially in national schools.

March 20th, 2009 LONDON - Brit chef Jamie Oliver, 33, has become animals rights group Peta's target after his flagship restaurant Fifteen promoted British pork. In his television show investigating pig welfare standards, Oliver had urged people to buy British rather than cheaper pork produced abroad under poorer conditions.

January 29th, 2009 LONDON - Socialite heiress Paris Hilton got candid in an interview in Britain, where she is presently working on her new reality show, 'Paris Hilton's British Best Friend'. When asked if the show is just a gimmick, she said: 'I moved from LA to New York when I was little so it was hard to make friends.