Things you might have missed this week
Bob Marley on a grapefruit, fire at River Cottage, inhalable coffee and more stories from the past seven days
Welcome to this week’s round-up of some of the other food stories that we’ve spotted this week.
Bob Marley celebrated on, er, grapefruit
It would have been Bob Marley's 67th birthday on Monday. Coincidentally, he's just been voted the most influential musician ever in a poll by Jamaican fizzy grapefruit drink ting. So what did they do to mark these two auspicious occasions? They commissioned a portrait of him on a grapefruit. You can see it above.
Fire at River Cottage
A fire on Tuesday night destroyed the cookery school at Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage. It’s likely that the blaze at the converted barn which housed the school had “been burning for some time before it was discovered”, said fire investigator Mike Burroughs. No-one was injured and there are no suspicious circumstances. Hugh himself was filming overseas at the time of the fire.
Need a caffeine hit? Take a deep breath
A Harvard professor has developed a lipstick-sized canister of inhalable coffee. Each AeroShot contains 100mg of lime-flavoured caffeine and has been on sale in New York for a month now, although sales have apparently been lethargic. But a burst of publicity this week could give sales a much-needed perk-up.
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James Martin heads home to open new restaurant
Saturday Kitchen superstar James Martin is to open a new restaurant at the Talbot Hotel in his hometown of Malton, North Yorkshire. The restaurant will open in April following a £3.5 million refurbishment of the 17th-century hotel.
Man sells historic drinks collection
A Dutch man is selling “the world’s largest collection of old liquors”, valued at $8 million (£5.07 million). Bay van der Bunt, who’s 63, inherited some of his collection from his father, who had in turn had them passed down to him by his father. The collection contains over 5,000 bottles and includes cognacs dating back to 1789.
The Boy Who Bakes smashes chocolate smartphone box
Edd Kimber, winner of the first series of the BBC’s Great British Bake Off, has just won another prize – a Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone housed in a box made entirely of Cadbury white chocolate. Once he’d unpacked his phone, Edd then smashed up the box to make a white chocolate and blackberry mousse. You can watch the video of him smashing and cooking below and get the recipe for the white chocolate and blackberry mousse on his blog The Boy Who Bakes.
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