LONDON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- The prestigious Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, England, has closed after a food poisoning episode, renowned chef Heston Blumenthal says.

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y., Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A New York state town is trying to decide how to move a historic landmark -- a 20,000-pound duck.

ST. PAUL, Minn., May 3 (UPI) -- A chef who brought fine food to Minnesota's capital is embroiled in a dispute with St. Paul health officials over duck confit.

CHICAGO, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Two Chicago-area senior conservation officials have been fined for mistakenly shooting the wrong kind of duck while hunting. Steve Bylina, the superintendent of Cook County's Forest Preserve and his maintenance superintendent, Richard Bono, ran afoul of t

WASHINGTON, April 18 (UPI) -- A mother duck nesting her eggs at Washington's Georgetown Ritz-Carlton hotel has forced the chef to remove the duck breast entrée from the menu.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- British environmental officials Monday confirmed a duck shot in Scotland had bird flu, but not the strain scientists fear will become a human pandemic.

LONDON, April 19 (UPI) -- "The Fat Duck" restaurant in England has topped the list of this year's World's 50 Best Restaurants.

KIEV, Ukraine, June 21 (UPI) -- The Ukrainian love for eating pork fat with rye bread and raw garlic has taken on a new twist -- dipping the fat in chocolate.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- New research on fat cells could result in therapies to keep unwanted pounds from sticking around after future holiday seasons. Johns Hopkins scientists said Monday are working on ways to keep immature fat cells from dividing and becoming fat-storing cells

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) --