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...days of foie gras as a simple exercise in gastronomic luxury are over. Foie gras - French for the fatted liver of a duck or goose -has come under increasing fire in the U.S., where it is a $17 million business. Chicago has banned the sale of it and California law will make it illegal to sell or raise foie gras by 2012. The fiercest battleground right now is in Philadelphia, where City Councilman Jack Kelly has proposed a ban and animal rights group Hugs for Puppies has been demonstrating outside the homes and businesses of chefs who serve the delicacy...
...restaurant - all highlighted by an A-list of chefs who strutted in, treated like gods, to cook in his kitchen. Indeed, they were worshiped by the 80 or so foodies able to lay down $5,000 a head for a round of tastebud-zapping dishes by Thomas Keller (the French Laundry in Napa Valley and Per Se in New York City), Heston Blumenthal (The Fat Duck in Berkshire, England), Ferran Adria (El Bulli, outside Barcelona) and Tetsuya Wakuda (Tetsuya's in Sydney). And by coming to Chicago, they paid tribute to the city's transformation from a steak-and-potatoes...
...dozen men and women came tumbling out of two large, metallic-white buses that pulled up beside the French Navy's headquarters on the Place de la Concorde in central Paris. First out onto the sidewalk was a white-haired gentleman with several folders tucked under his arm. He was followed by 11 slightly disoriented people whose appearance of confusion increased as they became surrounded by scores of onlookers appearing out of nowhere. A burly woman with a bright orange "police" armband then began barking "You can't stay here!" at the gawkers, while impressive-looking male colleagues formed...
...August 1997. The current investigation comes at the behest of Dodi's father, Mohammed Al Fayed, who insists his son and Diana were killed in a plot by the royal family and secret services to prevent the couple's impending marriage. Those charges have been rebuffed by an official French investigation and at least two U.K. rulings that said the deadly crash was an accident. Still, this new inquiry was ordered convened - and it trip to Paris slated as part of its examination...
...their eyeballing of the Parisian venues Diana sped through before the crash will shed any new light on what happened that August night ten years ago. "We know what caused her death: it's been catalogued in minute detail by investigators in both countries," says one slightly disgusted French justice official when asked about this week's visit to Paris by the jurors. "Case closed - move on." He goes on: "The official logic is by giving them the visual framework and time-span they all fit into, [the jurors] will better understand and mentally arrange all the complex details they...