"Princess Diana" news and stories

If it were anyone else's the hair in your food, it would be a health code violation, but when it belongs to a dead princess, suddenly it's art.

For the summer exhibition of surrealist art at the Barbican Art Gallery, renowned London jellymongers Bompas & Parr have created a trio of "occult jams," one of which claims as its not-so-secret ingredient a minuscule snippet of the late Princess Diana's hair.

"Milk Jam infused with a speck of Princess Diana's hair" is (clearly) the most headline-worthy of the three. The other two are "Absinthe and pineapple with sand from the Great Pyramids" and "Plum and Oak with wood from Nelson's ship The Victory."

The jams retail for the equivalent of a mere $7.60 a jar, sold at the Barbican's gallery shop, so it seems just as likely that the Diana jam will end up in a summer flan as it will under glass at a museum somewhere. (The milk jam reportedly tastes like condensed milk.)

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The Food Network announced today that Robert Irvine, host of the challenge show Dinner: Impossible, has been released from his contract and that they will be looking for a replacement host for that show. Irvine has been mired in scandal ever since it was discovered that he lied about his past cooking experience, specifically his involvement with Princess Diana's wedding cake.

I will be really sad to see him go, as I've always enjoyed Dinner: Impossible. I guess the next stop for Chef Irvine will be a reality show, in which his only virtue is that he once had his own television show.

[via TMZ]
Thanks Barry!

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