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Todd English and Erica Wang. Photo: David X Prutting, PatrickMcMullan.com

What do you do when you and your celebrity chef husband-to-be call it quits just days before your extravagant wedding at an upscale New York City hotel?

If you're Erica Wang, the recently ex-ed fiancee of Todd English, you put on a chic black dress and party it up with your family and friends, the New York Post reports. English is the previously married 48-year-old owner of the Olives restaurants and star of season three of the reality-TV show "Top Chef."

Wang and English called off the wedding days before it was to take place at the St. Regis Hotel, and since several guests had already made the trip to New York for the event -- which gossip blog Gawker reports English had already paid for -- the would-be bride and "about 150 of Wang's closest friends and family packed into the posh party space 20 stories above Fifth Avenue," the Post reported.

"Everybody is having a fantastic time," a source told the Post. "People are dancing their butts off."

I started reading Waiter Rant sometime in the fall of 2004. I was stuck in a job that wasn't particularly busy and so I would pass the hours reading blogs and exploring the internet (the boredom I experienced at that job is what prompted me to start blogging, which eventually led me here to Slashfood). Having never worked in a restaurant, I was fascinated by the stories that the Waiter posted and would check back every day, hoping for a new post (this was long before I learned to use an RSS reader). I, along with many of his other readers, was thrilled when he announced that he had gotten a book deal and would be bringing his stories to live between two covers.

Waiterrant fans, the wait is over, the book has arrived and the Waiter has been revealed. He is Steve Dublanica and the New York Post has an exclusive interview with him in which they dish about the blog, the restaurant and how he was almost outed by Russell Crowe. Steve has also been guest blogging over at Powells.com this week, so go over and check out what he wrote this week.

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Remember those old cartoons, in which one character would bake bolt cutters or a file into a cake, pie or loaf of bread, so that another character could bust out of the joint? I remember being highly entertained by those animated antics as a kid. However, as one New York man discovered recently, it's not nearly as amusing to discover something baked into your lunch in real life.

On June 27th, John Agnesini of Astoria, NY was sitting down to a foot-long Subway sandwich when he noticed a few bites in that something just didn't taste right. Feeling something hard on the bottom of his bread, he turned over the sandwich to discover that a 7-inch serrated knife was baked into the bread on which the sandwich had been made. He was sick for nearly three hours after eating that small portion of the sandwich.

Subway refuses to comment on the incident and Agnesini is currently suing the chain for $1 million.



[via New York Post]

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