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Eating at Michelin-starred restaurants doesn't normally involve being violently ill afterwards. So ever since 400 diners at British chef Heston Blumenthal's famed Fat Duck restaurant reported symptoms like nausea and diarrhea in mid-February, food connoisseurs have been keen to know what - or who - to blame. On Thursday, Blumenthal revealed the likely culprit: the highly contagious Norwalk virus, commonly known as norovirus...
...Blumenthal had voluntarily closed down The Fat Duck for two weeks - losing an estimated $145,000 as a result - while testing was carried out. After getting the all-clear from authorities, he reopened it on March 12, but kept seafood off the menu, just in case it would prove to be the culprit. The three-star restaurant is known for its inventive menu that includes scrambled egg and bacon ice cream, and snail porridge. Its 17-course set menu costs $180 and can take three hours to complete. (See pictures of the perfect steak...
...stricken customers have been asking if they can expect compensation any time soon. But the restaurant is taking a wait-and-see approach. "The discussion regarding any need for some sort of compensation will only happen when the investigation is complete," says Jo Livingston, a spokeswoman for The Fat Duck...
...also duck in from the heat and visit any number of Cartagena's cultural gems - from the stunning Museo de Oro (Gold Museum, at Plaza Bolívar) and Museo de Arte Moderno (Museum of Modern Art, right off la Plaza de San Pedro) to the Cathedral, which offers an exhaustively comprehensive audio tour for $8. (I gave up after about 15 minutes.) There's also the delightfully twisted Palacio de la Inquisición, which, despite its grand name, is a tiny museum that features some of the many torture devices used to elicit confessions of witchcraft...
...researchers ran similar tests involving a four-minute clip of an animated sword fight between two pirate characters and a three-minute nature video about ducks. In both cases, when commercials were inserted into the middle of the clip, respondents reported higher satisfaction levels than did those who saw it without advertisements. Also, those who saw commercials were willing to pay more money for a DVD compilation of 15 shorts by the director of the pirate video and to donate more funds to wild-duck preservation. The results held true whether the commercials were humorous (in the case...