José Andrés vs. Donald Trump; Offensive Coca-Cola Ad Rebuttal

Spanish-American super-chef José Andrés is speaking out about his legal battle with Donald Trump. Following Trump's controversial comments about undocumented immigrants, Andrés pulled out of a deal to open a restaurant in an upcoming Trump-owned D.C. hotel. Trump sued Andrés' company for breach of contract and Andrés fired back with a countersuit, claiming Trump's "anti-Hispanic" statements made it impossible to open a Spanish restaurant at the hotel. Now, Andrés says pulling out of the deal and filing a lawsuit was his way of showing solidarity with the immigrant community, saying, "If one sees injustice or that there is something not right, keeping quiet is no use."

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Is French cheese poised to go the way of the dinosaurs? More than four dozen French cheese varieties have gone extinct in the last 40 years. Part of that is due to increasingly stringent health regulations; the country's giant dairy producers are also gaining in power and helping contribute to what many say is a watering-down of the French cheese market. "The dairy industry lobbies for standards which would rob cheese of all true character and quality – in other words impose the kind of cheese that they can make cheaply," cheesemaker Hervé Mons tells The Independent.

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Was the last bottle of fancy Italian olive oil you bought fake? Italian authorities have busted a giant olive oil scam that reportedly made millions of euros in profit. Olive oil was imported from countries like Syria, Turkey, and Morocco, then blended and sold as authentic Italian extra-virgin olive oil in Italy and foreign markets including the U.S. and Japan.

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Chuck Williams, founder of ritzy kitchen store Williams-Sonoma, died Saturday at the age of 100. Williams founded the store in 1956 in Sonoma, Calif. to give Americans access to high-end cookware after finding inspiration on a trip to Paris; it now has more than 600 locations worldwide.

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