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

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Ferran Adria to launch cultural foundation The El Bulli chef aims to create monument to high cuisine as fitting legacy for his restaurant voted world's best five times. Read more from The Guardian   Spanish Restaurant lest people wash up for their dinner At La Trobada restaurant in cash-strapped Spain, there's still no free lunch, but diners short on cash can eat for free in exchange for an hour or so of work. Read more from MSN   Final Farewell for Ireland's first celebrity chef Dr Sean Kinsella, the legendary proprietor of the Mirabeau restaurant in Sandycove, south Dublin, passed away on Sunday at the age of 81 and is to be buried today. Read more from Irish Independent
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Editor 23rd May 2013

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