CHENNAI -- Eating out has become risky, with state health authorities not inspecting restaurants or carrying out checks on their kitchens for the past seven months. This has become a problem since perishables rot faster in the summer heat due to longer power cuts.

Food inspectors found a disgusting mess at an illegally-run Hampshire catering firm – and now its owner faces a £100,000 bill. Tired of its repeated flouting of the rules designed to keep people safe, council officials raided Paul Gillingham’s suburban base in Winchester.

Restaurateurs had their moment in the New York City political sun today, and wasted the opportunity with a barrage of complaints about the unfairness of restaurant inspections as well as the letter grades.

The temperature reached 80F in Raleigh yesterday (that's almost 27C for the metric crowd) flowers are blooming and I feel like eating hot dogs. It stems from some weird memory from my youth - my parents always grilled hot dogs as the first outdoor meal of the year (my dad wasn't into cold-weather grilling, or bbqing as it is called in Southern Ontario).