IP: Eatery served pork as veal Mercury News Front Page Wed Feb 23 06:45:04 EST 2000

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Wednesday, February 23, 2000
>Eatery served pork as veal
>Bella Mia owner, chef admit switch
>(By Sheila Himmel, Mercury News Restaurant Writer)
>A prominent downtown San Jose restaurant has admitted that for at least 
>five years it has been serving pork and claiming it was veal. Bella Mia 
>executive chef Gary Kjolhaug, 41, said Tuesday that he has been using pork 
>tenderloin in the Italian dishes offered on the menu as veal parmigiana 
>and veal scaloppine for ``probably five or six years.'' The owner didn't 
>know of the substitution, Kjolhaug said, until confronted with the results 
>of a Mercury News investigation.