Posted On: November 7, 2007
BLOG EXTRA: Salmonella Poisoning Is Torture
Los Angeles Times reporter Joel Rubin writes a captivating first-person account of his recent, most unpleasant tryst with salmonella poisoning. Rubin takes the opportunity to talk about food-borne illnesses and how they rear their ugly heads at the least likely of places. Rubin thought he became sick from eating at a little sushi place, but later found that the source of his nightmare was BLD, a top-notch eatery on Beverly Boulevard. The bacteria came from the half-cooked eggs used in the hollandaise sauce that topped the reporter’s Eggs Benedict and it made 40 people sick in one day – according to Rubin, the largest outbreak of food-borne illness in Los Angeles this year!
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