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Gregg Wallace ditched by Good Food Show over drunken attack on man Gregg Wallace has been dumped from the BBC Good Food Show after he ­drunkenly punched a man at a private dining event. His MasterChef co-host John Torode will handle next month’s high-profile ­public appearance in Glasgow on his own Read more from The Mirror   Pont St. seafood restaurant replaces Hix Belgravia at Belgraves hotel Sophie Michell, one of the youngest female executive chefs
in Britain, is heading up Pont St. – a contemporary seafood restaurant opening on the former site of Hix Belgravia within Thompson’s five-star Belgraves hotel in London Read more from Big Hospitality   Quinoa: Ancient grain being grown in UK It's an ancient "superfood" which has been grown high in the Andes for thousandsof years, but one man from Shropshire wants to make quinoa as British as tea and scones. Read more from BBC Food    
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Editor 9th September 2013

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