Celebrity chef Mario Batali has been forced to apologise after comparing bankers to Hitler and Stalin. The best-selling author owns a chain of restaurants across the US and is a partner in New York's Eataly food megamarket. It can take months to get reservations at his New York restaurants, including Del Posto's whose "menu tradizionale" costs $145 a person, a price tag that has made the venue a favourite with the Wall Street elite. Not any more. Bankers took to Twitter using the hashtag #bataligate to voice their anger after the chef compared them to two of the world's most notorious mass murderers. Batali made the ... (full story)