'Food pope' claims great chefs guilty

Europe's restaurant-guide bible has blasted the overuse of chemical additives in German restaurant fare and has threatened to lower the ratings of top chefs if they use too many additives in doing "molecular gastronomy".

The editor-in-chief of Gault Millau's German edition, Manfred Kohnke, launched his attack before his magazine chose Germany's "Chef of the Year".

The 69-year-old critic, who is known as Germany's "food pope", also called for food-additive labeling requirements to be extended to restaurant menus.