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P&O brings in celebrity chefs to help win the war with ‘fun’ ships

Saturday Kitchen star James Martin is joining the line-up of celebrity chefs on P&O Cruises’ new flagship Britannia, it was announced last night.  The 41-year-old from Yorkshire and master pâtissier Eric Lanlard were named alongside P&O favourites Marco Pierre White, Atul Kochhar and Olly Smith as the food and wine experts for the British-themed ship, which launches next year. Read more from Metro  

Cannibal restaurant 'with roasted human heads on the menu' shut down by police

Police arrested 11 people and closed a restaurant after two human heads wrapped in cellophane were discovered at a hotel restaurant that had been serving human flesh.  Human flesh was apparently being sold as an expensive treat at the restaurant, with authorities saying that roasted human head was on the menu. Read more from The Independent  

Chef 'speared customer through the hand with tandoori skewer after he complained about waiting two hours for food'

A chef yelled ‘Get out or I’ll kill you’ then speared a customer through the hand with a metal chicken tandoori skewer after he complained about waiting more than an hour for his food, a Sydney court has heard. Read more from Mail Online  

Food tycoon wins legal fight against grouse moor owners

A FROZEN food tycoon who sued a shooting estate's trustees, ­claiming he was misled over the numbers of birds he could shoot, will receive compensation after the Supreme Court ruled in his favour.  Alistair Erskine claimed that despite spending £530,000 to improve a grouse moor above the banks of the River Spey, five years of hard shooting yielded just 180 brace, or 360 birds - a far cry from the 2000 birds he had anticipated taking each year. Read more from The Herald
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Editor 13th February 2014

Daily news update: our selection of food and chef news from the worlds press