This goes back a few years but is still worth telling. A well-known chef was most upset to find that rats had made a warm and comfortable home beneath his industrial-sized dishwasher. After much cursing, amid fears of being shut down by public health authorities, our chef had the unwelcome rodents quietly removed by a company sworn to commercial secrecy.
Mysteriously, the tale ended up as a blind item in a newspaper diary. A few days later, the columnist was amazed to receive an irate, four-lettered phone call about the item ... but it was from a different celebrity chef!
