A CELEBRITY chef has been arrested after he was caught using cannabis to “experiment with new flavours”.
Chef Carmelo Chiaramonte is famous in Italy as a TV personality and a chef at the Katane Palace Hotel in Sicily.
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He told police that he was working on the new flavours for “contemporary cuisine” according to The Local Italy.
Carmelo, who hosted a TV cooking show, was found in the possession of two large marijuana plants and 1kg of Indian hemp.
Other items found at his home included cannabis-infused wine, coffee, olives and tuna, which were taken by police.
In one of the shows called “Immoral Recipes and Aphrodisiac Foods,” he previously said that cooks were like a “drug addict and an alchemist”.
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The chef, who lives in the village of Trecastagni near Mount Etna, told police that he was an “agro-food consultant for third millennium cuisine”.
He has been released pending a trial.
Hotels in the US are offering food and drink infused with cannabis to be delivered to your door.
Nine states have legalised the sale of cannabis oil – something which is not currently legal in Italy.
The first cannabis hotel opened in the UK last year.
Brighton’s The Canna Kitchen specialises in vegetarian and vegan food, infused with cannabis
Sun Online Travel has contacted Katane Palace Hotel for comment.
