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Goat’s cheese was on the menu as the leaders of the world’s most powerful countries gathered for a formal dinner in London this week to chew over ways to solve the financial crisis.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver added the cheese as a vegetarian option in a meal prepared for leaders of the G-20 nations, including U.S. [...]

Pressure is growing on U.S. President Barack Obama from Americans at home and abroad to scrap a planned 300 percent duty hike on Roquefort cheese that many say is embarrassing for their country’s image.
The duty, raised by Obama’s predecessor George W. Bush as part of a raft of taxes in retaliation to a European Union [...]