Culinary universe: Paris bites back (Independent) A year and a half ago I moved to Paris to train as a professional chef. I was bored by Jamie and Nigella's "rip it up and toss it about" Modern Med cooking by numbers and I wanted to take my cooking to the next level, to learn how to cook more complex food, from scratch, without a recipe, using whatever ingredients took my fancy. I turned, naturally, to classical French cuisine. If anyone can be [News Source]

Beef in BSE scare taken off shelves. Beef products were taken off supermarket shelves yesterday after meat from a cow older than 30 months was sold without being tested for BSE. [News Source]

Risks from animal diseases growing. Diseases spread by birds, mosquitoes, cattle, and other animals are a growing problem for humans -- affecting millions of people a year, according to a new study. [News Source]

Ohio farmers to pitch genetics (The Columbus Dispatch) Livestock producers hope to infuse a little bit of Ohio into Central America. [News Source]

MAD COW PANIC HITS 2000 SHOPS (Daily Record) THE Co-op were last night facing a nationwide scare over their beef because a single cow at risk of BSE was allowed into the food chain by mistake. A wide range of beef products from Co-op branches all over the UK were recalled or taken off shelves. [News Source]

Japan private equity fund leads $505 mln Rex buyout (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) TOKYO, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Japanese private equity firm Advantage Partners led a $505 million management buyout of restaurant and convenience store operator Rex Holdings Co. Ltd. , part of a growing buyout trend in Japan. [News Source]

MAD COW MEAT RECALL (Daily Mirror) A MAD cow scare cleared tons of beef from the shelves of two supermarket chains last night. [News Source]

MAD COW PANIC HITS 2000 SHOPS (Daily Record) THE Co-op were last night facing a nationwide scare over their beef because a single cow at risk of BSE was allowed into the food chain by mistake. A wide range of beef products from Co-op branches all over the UK were recalled or taken off shelves. [News Source]