Profits at celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s British restaurants plunged by nearly 90 percent in the last 12 months.
Recession bites into TV chef Gordon Ramsay’s profits
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Afterbirth for Dinner
There is so much you can’t know about your spouse when you get married, like that one day she will want to eat her placenta. But there are two things you don’t argue about with a pregnant woman: what she eats and that being full of life indeed looks sexy. So when Cassandra told me that for $275, a woman would come to our house, cook Cassandra’s placenta, freeze-dry it and turn it into capsules to help ward off postpartum depression and increase milk supply, I said, “$275 is a bargain compared with the $20,000 I’ll have to spend to tear out our kitchen immediately afterward.” Most mammals, Cassandra explained, eat their placentas, to which I countered that most dogs eat their poop.
India Comes Under Pressure to Get Serious About Child Labor
Asha’s day starts at 8 a.m., when she wakes up and makes breakfast for the family she lives with as a nanny in Noida, a suburb of New Delhi. She takes the kids down to play, feeds them, bathes them and puts up with their tantrums
Pixar’s secrets on display in ‘Up’
It’s a record any studio would love to have.
Torture a hallmark of Phoenix’s drug kidnappings
Jaime Andrade had just gotten out of the shower when the men came to snatch him.
Dad who killed family, self was $460K in debt, sheriff says
A man who shot his wife and three children to death before committing suicide in Middletown, Maryland, last weekend had about $460,000 in mortgage and credit card debt, the local sheriff said Tuesday. Deputies who examined a computer taken from Christopher Wood’s home found information that showed “severe financial difficulties,” including money owed on a home in Florida that the family had been unable to sell, Frederick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins said at a news conference. Wood was a salesman for CSX Railroad, where he earned about $97,000 a year, the sheriff said.
Young couple moves in with her ex-husband
Struggling to make ends meet, trying to dig themselves out of debt, Nicole Thompson-Arce and her husband have moved in with her ex-husband. (CNN) — Struggling to make ends meet, trying to dig themselves out of debt, Nicole Thompson-Arce and her husband have moved in with her ex-husband
What Made the Fat Duck Diners Ill
Eating at Michelin-starred restaurants doesn’t normally involve being violently ill afterwards.
How to get lucky in love — and other parts of life
On a Saturday morning, Colleen Seifert woke up early and ate her usual breakfast: half a bagel, fruit, and coffee. She walked her Russian wolfhound, Bandit, and tidied her apartment. Seifert was an assistant professor in psychology at the University of Michigan, and for six years her life had been entirely focused on a single goal: earning tenure.
Octuplets’ mother says she’s buying larger home
Nadya Suleman, the California woman who gave birth to octuplets in January, says she’s buying a house of her own, despite news reports otherwise. “I earned it.