NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan restaurants tested by the New York Times contained dangerously high levels of mercury.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Chefs in Tijuana, Mexico, aimed Sunday to wrest the world's Caesar salad record from New York by tossing a 3-ton salad to feed 15,000 people.
TOKYO, June 25 (UPI) -- Japanese sushi chefs, faced with shortages of bluefin tuna, are experimenting with alternatives, including deer meat, horse meat and U.S.-style avocado rolls.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Actor Oliver Platt has signed on to star in a remake of the film, "Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?," to be set in Las Vegas.
LONDON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- A British study finds TV chefs don't have that much influence on what common cooks do in their own kitchen.
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The pressure of cooking apparently got to a pair of Swedish chefs whose disagreement boiled over and left one with rice pudding burns.
BANGKOK, May 1 (UPI) -- Thailand's industry minister says he expects at least 500 chefs to be registered and trained to meet the increasing international demand for Thai food.
PARIS, March 1 (UPI) -- Tuesday's release of the "Michelin Guide Rouge 2005" allocating stars to French restaurants is being met with yawns by French chefs, The Independent reports.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Some say Laura Bush will have no trouble replacing the departing White House chef, but some of San Francisco's chefs say they would't serve if asked.
MADRID, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Four prominent chefs in Spain are being investigated as conspirators with the banned ETA Basque separatists for paying extortion money to them.
