Once, long ago, I tried making blackened chicken at home. It was not a success - my apartment filled with smoke and smelled like a chimney for days after. But it was only a minor inconvenience, not a reason to call homeland security:
A pot of burning chilli sparked fears of a biological terror attack in central London.The restaurant's chef was making Nam Prik Pao, which uses deliberately burned chillies. Neighbors called in the biological threat:
Firefighters wearing protective breathing apparatus were called to D'Arblay Street, Soho, after reports of noxious smoke filling the air.
Police closed off three roads and evacuated homes following the alert.
Specialist crews broke down the door to the Thai Cottage restaurant at 1900 BST on Monday where they discovered the source - a 9lb pot of chillies.
Alpaslan Duven, a Turkish journalist based in the restaurant's building, said: 'I was sitting in the office when me and my chief start coughing and I said this was something really dodgy.I know they say that any publicity is good publicity, but I'm not sure the Thai Cottage would agree.
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I'm just amazed that my cooking has never caused this kind of reaction! Something to work for, I guess.
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