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Eatery temporarily closes after workers falls ill
SAUGUS, Mass. (AP) — A famous Massachusetts restaurant has closed temporarily after a food handler was diagnosed with salmonella typhi. Kelly's Roast Beef on U.S. Route 1 in Saugus closed voluntarily Tuesday. The Saugus Board of Health has allowed Kelly's to be open, but the restaurant says it is...
Jamie Oliver's UK restaurant chain collapses into insolvency
LONDON (AP) — Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's British restaurant chain filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, partly due to increased competition and escalating rents in local commercial districts. The insolvency will leave 1,000 people out of work and reignited worries about local retail and food...
Senior Center displays vintage menus, memorabilia
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (AP) — Passing by a display case in the Senior Community Center lobby, local residents might recognize relics of a bygone era when a dollar and change could pay for an entire restaurant meal. A variety of menus, ash trays, glassware and silverware from several now-defunct area...
'Tortilla movement' seeks to restore Mexico's iconic food
MEXICO CITY (AP) — As Mexico City's 9 million residents sleep in the pre-dawn darkness, busy hands are already preparing the day's corn tortillas in the small kitchen of Molino El Pujol, a tortilla shop that is part of a famed chef's bid to help recover Mexico's iconic food. As the old tortilla machine...
Celeb chef José Andrés calls fired cafeteria worker a 'hero'
CANAAN, N.H. (AP) — The plight of a fired school cafeteria worker in New Hampshire has caught the attention of award-winning chef José Andrés. Bonnie Kimball was fired by a food supply vendor for Mascoma Valley Regional High School on March 28, a day after giving a free lunch to a student who...
Asian Americans push for Smithsonian gallery of their own
The Smithsonian's initiative on documenting Asians in America started humbly enough two decades ago, with a borrowed exhibit in a borrowed museum wing and a tiny staff. There was a National Museum of the American Indian attached to the Smithsonian, and progress was being made toward a museum on the National Mall...
Amazon takes top stake in UK food delivery firm Deliveroo
LONDON (AP) — Amazon is investing in British meal delivery company Deliveroo, giving the online shopping behemoth a larger stake in the fast-growing restaurant delivery business. Amazon failed to get its own restaurant delivery business going in the United Kingdom, shutting it down for good late last year....
My kind of mix-up: $5,760 bottle of wine served by mistake
LONDON (AP) — A British restaurant has given some customers an unexpected treat, accidentally serving them a 4,500-pound ($5,760) bottle of red wine. The Hawksmoor Manchester said on Twitter it hoped the diners "enjoyed your evening" after getting the 2001 bottle of Chateau le Pin Pomerol instead of the...
Correction: Costly Coffee story
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a story May 15 about a California cafe serving what it calls the world's most expensive coffee, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the coffee beans are organic. They are not. The coffee is selling for $75 a cup. A corrected version of the story is below: California cafe...
Sri Lanka's hotels, beaches, eateries now empty of tourists
HIKKADUWA, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sipping fresh coconut water while sunbathing on deserted Hikkaduwa beach, Alexi Konchayenko, a sports trainer from Ukraine, struck a stoical note. Bomb blasts can happen "anywhere, anytime," he said, adding that he was not afraid. "Sri Lanka is an amazing country. This is my...
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