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Cheese on menu as leaders try to solve crisis

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. [...]

Is China fighting a war on cheese?

China is deploying trained sniffer beagles at major airports to track down chunks of cheese packed in luggage, according to anecdotal reports from passengers.
The Website of respected U.S. magazine Atlantic has detailed several accounts of what it says could be an “anti-cheese crackdown” at Chinese ports of entry.