Hints and tips:
...The best service I have received on the high street is from Hobbs. It’s one of the few shops where sales staff have the confidence to say, “That style doesn’t suit you as well as this one.”...
...When those moths munch their way through your very best “old Celine” cashmere jumper, don’t panic: they will sort your sartorial disasters and return them as good as new....
...I liked choosing the wine first — an esoteric and exceptionally fine Burgundy from a small producer, and then a dish of lamb loin with mushrooms and thyme to suit the grape....
...People trying to run a small business can't protect themselves from load shedding in the way that bigger businesses can. So load shedding deepens inequality as well. I can't work without electricity....
...Stephen GandelSo I think the Fed is not doing everything it can do to stop the bank crisis, just to stop bank investors from freaking out....
...And then you look at Asia and, you know, typically that would mean, okay, fine, let’s take on some China risk....
...It gives us resistance to failing as a business because our food costs are up to 90 per cent GP, as we call it, which is a 10 per cent best case scenario food costs....
...At Anju in Washington DC, chefs Danny Lee and Angel Barreto are doing creative, award-winning work, serving modern takes on classics such as Korean fried chicken alongside Lee’s mother’s traditional recipes...
...But this is a sideshow, relative to the impact of the Fed, and in aggregate, earnings reports have been fine....
...We’re not meant to look our best; we’re meant to look at ourselves. More food comes. Candy-sweet beets with whipped feta....
...During our conversations, I tell Vermeule that as someone fed up by gridlock in Washington, I find parts of his vision of a just and empowered state appealing....
...In one he refers to double violets as the “princesses of flowers, and in a shower of rain, almost as fine as barley sugar drops are to a schoolboy’s tongue”....
...As a result, Spector published Spoon-Fed, a myth-buster of food fads such as calorie counting and vitamin supplements....
...We will do our best to make the amendment as soon as possible....
...He showed us two fine white Chilean Sauvignons and marvelled that New Zealand managed to sell more than eight times as much wine of the same style and price....
...AP linastores.co.uk Loaves & Fishes, Sagaponack, the Hamptons Considered the best place in the Hamptons for fine foods to take away, Loaves & Fishes is famed for its grilled citrus salmon, chicken schnitzel...
...Since then, the costs of doing business during Covid-19 have throttled growth and profits, with billions spent on keeping Amazon’s reputation for fast delivery intact....
...For as long as the weather will allow, Quince is hosting casual (but still very fine) dining lunches at two farm locations....
...A third-generation calf-and-cattle man, he’s had to change his business model in order to keep doing what he loves. “The mission became: how can we take ranching into the future?” says Duke....
...As long as you use the best possible eggs....
...The best gift I’ve given recently was a colour photograph of the Room of the Greek Cross at the Vatican, to my partner [the milliner] Rod Keenan, for his study....
...I have wanted to have a crack at vegan food for a while but when everybody was doing “Veganuary” at the beginning of the year, I funked it....
...(NYT) Doing justice Preet Bharara sits down with Dave Chang to talk about his tenure as the US attorney for the southern district of New York and being recognised as one of the most successful prosecutors...
...Plus, the first Zoom site is doing very well, as we might expect too....
...The number of people in the UK identifying as vegan or vegetarian is rising; the rolls are a best-seller; and the moral high ground increasingly seems to be held by those with plant-based diets....
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