He said Ms. Mangano received more than $450,000 over several years for a no-show job that she said included work as a food taster, not that working as a food taster was the entire job.
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One commenter wrote that Gates should "bring a food taster" to Boston.
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Among her supposed duties, according to Mr. Capers: serving as a food taster.
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A "job" as a food taster at a restaurant that paid $2400,2000 a year.
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As he said when starting his session, "It's my 10th year here — my first with a food taster."
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Stilted as the show may be, Colton's food-taster is slippery, active, and finding its way into a lot of mouths!
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By focusing as much as possible on creating brands and cooking food, Taster can quickly scale and compete aggressively with more traditional restaurants.
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That special someone should not be a celebrity novice and the Garden being the Garden, that man might want to have his food taster in tow.
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In 1988, Saddam Hussein, then the president of Iraq, sentenced to death his eldest son, Uday, for murdering Saddam's beloved valet and food taster, Kamel Hana Gegeo.
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" She added, "That's really the chef's job — the chef is the food taster, and if there is an owner, the chef and the owner are the food tasters.
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Mr. Mangano's wife, Linda, who allegedly received a no-show job as a food taster at one of Mr. Singh's restaurants as part of the scheme, is also a defendant.
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Ms. Mangano got a no-show job as a "food taster," a position restaurant industry experts said was a fiction, for which she received about $450,000 over several years from the restaurateur.
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The Nassau County executive, Edward P. Mangano, his wife and a local town supervisor were arrested and charged on Thursday with trading government contracts and official favors for free vacations, a no-show job as a food taster and other bribes — the latest in a series of corruption scandals to embarrass New York.
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But a federal prosecutor, in announcing on Thursday the indictment of the Nassau County executive, his wife and another government official, suggested that the defendants and a restaurateur had elevated the tradition to a delectable art: The restaurateur paid the executive's wife $450,000 over a few years for a job that included work as a food taster at one of his businesses, a purported vocation that led some in the restaurant world to turn up their noses.
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Hitler's Food Taster: One Bite Away from Death, Der Spiegel, April 2, 2013.
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His host was the widowed mother of Samuel Ward. Ward was employed as the Young Pretender's food taster. On the morning of 5 December a Council of War was called at Exeter House.
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A head chef or food taster sampling dishes in Feast of Bartolomeo Colleoni in honor of Christian I of Denmark, attributed to Romanino (1467) A food taster is a person who ingests food that was prepared for someone else, to confirm it is safe to eat. One who tests drink in this way is known as a cupbearer. The person to whom the food is to be served is usually an important person, such as a monarch or somebody under threat of assassination or harm.
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Saffron is a food taster for the cruel Duke Michal, forced to sample the magically psychoactive confections prepared by the Head Pastry Chef — her imprisoned husband, who can only communicate with her via the specific memories and emotions that the pastries evoke.
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Saddam Hussein forced Shahbandar to divorce her first husband. In 1986, Shahbandar was married to Saddam Hussein in secret. In the late 1980s, Shahbandar appeared in public with Saddam Hussein. Kamel Hana Gegeo, Hussein's valet, food taster and friend, introduced Samira to him.
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Maura Louise Judkis is an American journalist and writer. She has also received recognition as a humorist, essayist, food taster, and video presenter. Since 2011, she has written for the Washington Post and is currently a general assignment reporter for the paper's style section.
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89 According to Ilse Hess (wife of Rudolf Hess), in 1937, Hitler ceased eating meat except for liver dumplings. Margot Wölk, who became his unwilling food taster in 1942, stated that all the food she tested for Hitler was vegetarian, and she recalled no meat or fish.Bitter memories linger of life as Hitler's food taster, The New Zealand Herald, 21 September 2014, Accessed 20 September 2014 from USA This account was backed up in 2017 when Russia's Federal Security Service granted permission to a team of French scientists to undertake an examination of Hitler's bones. An analysis of the tartar deposits found on the Führer's teeth and dentures found no traces of meat fibre.
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Serda is a Certified Master Food Taster. He is a former member of the Culinary Advisement Board and is currently a substitute Chef Instructor for Job Corp Treasure Island, San Francisco. He has published his first cook book Just the Cook and has been working on his second cook book History in the Eating.
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Catherine cut Marguerite out of her will. Margaret never saw her mother or brother again. Margaret assumed she was going to die and even employed a food taster at the château. In a "farewell" letter to her mother, she asked that after her execution a post-mortem be held to prove that she was not, despite gossip, pregnant with d'Aubiac's child.
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Poison Study is a 2005 fantasy novel written by Maria V. Snyder and the first book in the Study series. It tells the story of a nineteen-year-old girl named Yelena, who after spending just less than a year in a dungeon awaiting execution is given the chance to live on the condition that she will become the Commander's Food Taster.
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A good friend of Kenshirō Kasumi. At the beginning of the series, the old man works as a food taster for Emperor Pu-Yi and travels with him to Japan. He was captured by the Hóng-Huá Society and was interrogated as to the whereabouts of Yán-Wáng . Even when they cut off his toes, he refused to tell them anything.
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Exeter House The Ring given to 13-year-old Samuel Samuel Ward (1732–1820) owned property in Derby and Richmond in England. As a boy he was food taster to Bonnie Prince Charlie and was rewarded with a diamond ring which is now in the collection of Derby Museum and Art Gallery along with his 1781 portrait by Joseph Wright.
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As the smallest of the gang, Yassen is chosen to crawl through a fortochka and let the other members into the house, but Sharkovsky unexpectedly returns to the flat and captures Yassen. Sharkovsky decides to let Yassen live and work as a food taster due to the recent death of the previous one, and forces him to play a game of Russian Roulette with a single bullet, of which Yassen is extremely reluctant but he survives. After making two unsuccessful attempts to escape, Yassen spends the next three years at Sharkovsky's estate, serving as his food taster as well as a general laborer. One night, he learns that Sharkovsky had been responsible for the deaths of his parents and subsequent destruction of his village, having cut corners regarding safety at the factory to increase profit, and vows to kill him.
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Shinnojo, a low level samurai, lives with his pretty and loyal wife Kayo. Bored with his position as a food-taster for a feudal lord, he talks about opening a kendo school open to boys of all castes. Before he can act, he becomes ill after tasting some whelk sashimi. An investigation reveals that the poisoning was not a human conspiracy, but a poor choice of food out of season.
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At the Wolf's Table (; "The [Female] Tasters") is a 2018 novel by Italian author Rosella Postorino, with the English translation by Leah Janeczko. It is about a woman, Rosa Sauer, who becomes a food taster for Adolf Hitler during World War II. This is the first novel by Postorino to have an official English translation. It was originally published by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore in Italy in January 2018.Le assaggiatrici.
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Ward lived in Derby. When Bonnie Prince Charlie was staying at Exeter House in Derby on 4 December 1745, his mother allowed Samuel to be the young pretender's food taster. Ward was then the son of an Alderman who was being brought up by his widowed mother. During his short stay Bonnie Prince Charlie made his decision to give up on his march on London to seize the crown of England.
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Tiye and Isis compete to have their son named as heir of Ramesses III and the Pharaoh eventually chooses Isis. Tiye plots to murder the Pharaoh and seize the country in a military coup. Tiye uses spells stolen from the Pharaoh's own library against him and recruits many important generals and courtiers into her conspiracy (including the food-taster). Ramesses's failing health and poor political decisions lead to civil disobedience and revolt across the country.
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Sir John Snakelaw - The Devereux castle has been commandeered by her uncle, the evil Sir John Snakelaw, who imposes crippling taxes on the local populace. Sir John is supported by a motley crew including Captain Watt and a hapless team of guards. He also has a food taster whose ingestion of poison has prematurely aged him so that he looks 50 rather than 20.He hates his mother and would do anything to get money.
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Postorino derived the story from that of real-life food taster Margot Wölk. The author used her own given name for the fictionalized version of the inspiration. Postorino learned about Wölk in 2014 after reading an article about her in an Italian newspaper, but Wölk died before Postorino had a chance to interview her. Postorino decided to write a novel with a fictional character due to the fact she never got to speak to Wölk.
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Tacitus says that Locusta prepared the poison, which was served to the Emperor by his food taster Halotus. Tacitus also writes that Agrippina arranged for Claudius' doctor Xenophon to administer poison, in the event that the Emperor survived. Suetonius differs in some details, but also implicates Halotus and Agrippina. Like Tacitus, Cassius Dio writes that the poison was prepared by Locusta, but in Dio's account it is administered by Agrippina instead of Halotus.
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The next morning, Ipy is found dead in the lake, drowned. The field of suspects has been further narrowed. Esa attempts to flush out the murderer by dropping a hint about the death of Satipy, but is herself murdered by means of poisoned unguent, despite the presence of a food taster. Henet - who knows the murderer's identity and is momentarily powerful amid the chaos - is smothered by the linens used to wrap the ever-increasing number of victims.
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As a "tribute" to Kwan, her youngest son Rudy decided to forgo his career in the stock market and establish Madam Kwan's, a Malaysia-based restaurant selling similar food items as Sakura does, in 1999. The rendang sold at Madam Kwan's is personally cooked by Kwan, alongside other food items. The restaurant is recognised for its beef rendang and nasi lemak, the latter selling around a thousand plates a day. Kwan also serves as a food taster for Madam Kwan's.
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After many tests on kids, there was a mixture that killed an animal instantly. Being pleased, Nero had the concoction brought immediately to the dining room.Suetonius, Life of Nero, 33 Britannicus was poisoned at a dinner party attended by his sister, Octavia, Agrippina, and several other notables. Tacitus' account of the event is as follows: Britannicus was given a hot drink, which was tested by a food taster, and when he asked for it to be cooled, the poison was added to it with the cold water.
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In the 11th century Sewards End did not exist as a defined community. At that time there were four smaller communities around what would eventually become Sewards End. Probably the most influential at that time was Wills Ayley where Monks from Saffron Walden had been granted 60 acres of land in 1070. In 1090 Geoffrey de Mandeville, Lord of Saffron Walden, granted 60 acres of land to Sigesward reputedly his food taster. Ten years after his death in Belgium in 1114, his grandson, Albold de Pouncyn applied to have the land reinstated to him.
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Hawks worked with the two writers during summer 1937, and they came up with a 202-page script. Wilde and Nichols wrote several drafts together, beginning a romantic relationship and co-authoring the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Carefree a few months later. The Bringing Up Baby script underwent several changes, and at one point there was an elaborate pie fight, inspired by Mack Sennett films. Major Applegate had an assistant and food taster named Ali (which was intended to be played by Mischa Auer), but this character was replaced with Aloysius Gogarty.
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Locusta served as a poisons expert under empress Agrippina the Younger. According to some historians, in AD 54, already notorious and imprisoned on poisoning charges, Locusta was ordered by the empress Agrippina the Younger to supply a poison for the murder of her husband, Claudius. This was sprinkled on a mushroom and given to the emperor by his food-taster Halotus; when this poison appeared to be ineffectual, the doctor Gaius Stertinius Xenophon murdered Claudius with a poisoned feather ostensibly put down his throat to induce vomiting.Tacitus, Annals 12.66-67; Cassius Dio 61.34.
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Although his status as Saddam's elder son made him Saddam's prospective successor, Uday fell out of favour with his father. In October 1988, at a party in honour of Suzanne Mubarak, wife of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Uday murdered his father's personal valet and food taster, Kamel Hana Gegeo, possibly at the request of his mother. Before an assemblage of horrified guests, an intoxicated Uday bludgeoned Gegeo and repeatedly stabbed him with an electric carving knife. Gegeo had recently introduced Saddam to a younger woman, Samira Shahbandar, who had become Saddam's second wife in 1986.
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Another man with suspicions is Theodore Benik, Salamander's unpleasant deputy, who has heard from Bruce that Salamander was supposed to be in two places at one time. He visits and intimidates Giles Kent, but the Doctor stays hidden while the unsolicited visitor is there destroying Kent's property. Meanwhile, Jamie and Victoria use their new roles in the palace to get close to Fariah, Salamander's food taster, hoping to gather information on the Leader's intentions. Jamie also causes a diversion to try to facilitate a rescue attempt on Denes by Astrid.
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Hirtzler was born in approximately 1875 in Strasbourg, France. He trained at the Grand Hotel in Paris, France, served as cook and food taster to Czar Nicholas II, and chef du cuisine for Carlos I of Portugal, before moving to Sherry's and the Waldorf in New York City. In 1904 he moved to San Francisco to manage food service at the recently opened St. Francis Hotel on Union Square. The hotel survived the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and opened for breakfast as usual that morning, shortly after the quake, to the surprise and admiration of the city's residents.
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Magic Study is a 2006 fantasy novel written by Maria V. Snyder, the second book in the Study series. The series is about a girl named Yelena who was kidnapped as a child from her home in Sitia from the Zaltana clan, who are strong in magic. At the age of sixteen, her magical abilities (illegal in Ixia) begin to show and she is experimented upon by her kidnappers, who tell her she was orphan. After killing one of her tormentors and awaiting her death in a dungeon, she is given the opportunity to become the Commander's food taster and live.
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Margot Wölk (sometimes Woelk; 27 December 1917Sie war die Vorkosterin von Adolf Hitler, Berliner Zeitung, December 29, 2012.April 2014) was a German secretary who was among 15 young women who, in 1942, were selected to taste German leader Adolf Hitler's food at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia for two- and-a-half years to confirm that it was safe.Todesangst bei jedem Bissen, Der Spiegel, April 2, 2013. She was the only one of the 15 to survive World War II, and her background as Hitler's food taster was not revealed until a newspaper interview on her 95th birthday in December 2012.
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Choquette went on to work for The National Lampoon and on editing a vast and ambitious comic book project with material from numerous internationally-known cartoonists and media figures. The book was entitled "Someday Funnies" and was completed and published through Abrams ComicArts in 2011. Choquette teaches screen-writing and comedy writing at McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal. Elbling was later a member of The Committee, acted on many televisions shows (including Taxi and WKRP) and films (including Phantom of the Paradise) during the 1970s and 80s, created the 1979 satirical NY Times Best Seller The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade 1980–1989, has written children's books as well as the international best selling novel The Food Taster.
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Ruins of the Škvorec Castle around 1881 Škvorec Castle is first mentioned in historical sources in 1279 (but more fully documented in 1404). The founder, and maybe the builder too, was probably Domaslav around 1279, an important courtier and landed official, the butler of the Queen (1262) and her food taster (1263–1269, 1279), Lord High Treasurer (1267–1278) and one of the ten Burgraves of the Prague Castle. From the castle he built, only the deep well is now preserved, cut in the granite rock, which was situated near to the early gothic palace – that standing on the site of the present school building. The coat-of-arms of Domaslav of Škvorec (three vertical stripes), which cannot be found later in the Central Bohemia, proving that the castle must have passed to another noble family not long after .
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Not everyone is pleased by Yelena's acceptance of the role of food taster, especially not General Brazell, whose son was killed by Yelena, despite it being in self-defense. His wants for her death causes Valek, the assassin and right-hand man to the Commander, who rules Ixia with an iron fist without ever bending the rules, to take her under his protection, despite having fed her Butterfly Dust to prevent her escape: if she doesn't have the antidote every day, she will die. But unfortunately for Yelena, she is developing strong magical abilities that she cannot control, which are illegal and a cause for death in Ixia. But she must use her abilities to protect herself not only from other magic users coming into Ixia, but against those who plot against the commander and against Valek, who she is slowly developing feelings for.
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