Hints and tips:
...“They must want to drive everyone completely nuts by the new year.”...
...The trick to a good paillard is getting the thickness right — this is fast cooking on smoking hot metal, so there’s not much room for error. Too thin and it’ll dry out before it gets good colour....
...However, there are cultural factors behind the success of the Chinese market compared with America, which is considered a tougher nut to crack....
...In cities across the continent, a “micro-entrepreneur”, as the development jargon has it, might just be the owner of a tanning works, a metal-bashing business or a tile-making factory....
...Martin – with a jet-black mohawk and an ear full of gold screws, nuts and bolts, from her new HMp collection – is not a figure to forget....
...I’ve recently discovered tintype photography, where images are printed on metal in a completely one-off way. We had our family portraits done using this 19th-century technique....
...Everything lying around the Metinvest factory is used: plastic tubes, foam blocks, used tyres, scrap wood and metal....
...But at home, her favourite decoration is an ugly metal robin called Gerald. “Gerald is one of those ornaments that has much more meaning than the sum of his parts,” she says....
...Deripaska, who made his fortune in metals, was first sanctioned by the US in 2018, in response to Russia’s earlier annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea....
..., recycled window glass and lumps of lavender bio-resin, made from soybean and cashew nut oil....
...Despite being removed from pipes, paint and petrol decades ago, the metal is the preferred choice for most British shooters....
...Some days, say, when I’m staring at a nut that used to be hexagonal and it’s so rusty that it won’t undo, my favourite tool is the old, misshapen spanner that wiggles it free....
...“It is both mechanical engineering and a more artistic way to master the metal,” he says....
...Africa needs to smelt its own metals and produce more of its own manufactured goods. Private investors are making a start....
...The eldest son sent me photos of apple trees and buckets of nuts. The garden has become overgrown during our absence. There is a lot of work to be done to put it in order....
...Just as many of the industry’s enthusiastic new entrants have discovered that making cars is hard, so established manufacturers have found software a tough nut to crack....
...Like all the volunteers, she’s sporting a T-shirt that says “I must be nuts.” The race is sponsored by Whole Earth peanut butter this year....
...It comes with recipes and preparation tips and can churn out nut milks, soups and sauces too. It can also be comprehensively dismantled so is easily cleaned....
...And none of this has been helped by a year where the world went nuts about inflation, and gold traded solidly sideways....
...Now add the garlic, spices, pine nuts and almonds and cook again until the pine nuts are golden. Add the drained rice, season with sea salt and coat well in the ghee and spices....
...But in a globalised market where everything seems correlated, including much of the bond market, that’s a tough nut to crack....
...We’ve been consoling ourselves: yes, the thought of a spritz and a nut in a square in Ravello, the sound of church bells tolling and the scent of bougainvillea heavy in the air is a delicious one....
...It’s a long metal box filled with clean-burning binchotan charcoal over which he jiggles and fusses with each skewer....
...Nut off, Nut Nuts: I have just enjoyed watching two grey squirrels scampering towards the tulips and then stopping in frustration as the wire blocks their usual extraction....
...A year ago that would have sounded nuts....
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