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Jamie Oliver launches London 'pop up' restaurant Jamie Oliver has launched Jamie Oliver's Diner, a new semi-permanent restaurant in partnership with chef Arthur Potts Dawson, in a venue on Shaftesbury Avenue. Read more from Big Hospitality   More than 1,000 applicants rush for just four chef jobs Newcastle bar owner Michael Wilson thought he’d get a few dozen replies. But he ended up spending four weeks wading through 1,200 applications for the jobs at the minimum wage of £6.31 an hour. Read more from The Sun   French chef puts crickets on menu French chef David Faure, who runs the Michelin-starred restaurant Aphrodite in Nice, praises the popcorn flavor of crickets and the nutty tones that mealworms bring to his cod dish. Read more from Bloomberg   Ten gross ingredients you didn't know were in your food Arsenic, antifreeze or beaver anal glands anyone? Ten things they put in our food that make horse meat look appetising. Read more from The Guardian
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Editor 14th May 2013

Daily news round up: our selection of food and chef news from the world's press