Hints and tips:
...The Browetts’ last visit, on Sunday morning, was to Massolino in Serralunga d’Alba....
...Rice salad in Novara consists of rice, anchovies, a hint of garlic, parsley and, surprise, surprise, “un bel tartufo d’Alba”....
...The book continues to more recent examples such as Tamara La Gitana, a trans flamenco dancer who died of Aids-related illness, and Antonio Canales’s performance as Lorca’s Bernarda Alba, both in the 1990s...
...They were handmade for me by Franco Calò in Rome, but they no longer make them, and I am terrified of losing them....
...The world’s best player interrupted his family holiday in the mountainous region of Cerdanya on the Franco-Spanish border for discussions with the Dutchman in Barcelona....
...The residence of the 19th Duke of Alba — aka Carlos Fitz-James Stuart — it is home to one of the world’s greatest private art collections....
...One notable exception is Teresa’s right arm, which the dictator Franco kept by his bed and is now held in the Andalusian city of Ronda, 600km to the south....
...Jancis’s Barolo picks • Azelia, San Rocco 2006 • Luigi Baudana 2007 • Pio Cesare, Ornato 2009 • Michele Chiarlo, Cerequio 2001, 2004 and 2009 • Damilano, Cerequio 2009 • Aldo Conterno, Bussia 2009 • Franco...
...“It reminds me of an old joke about [Spain’s Francisco] Franco,” says one Argentine observer....
...Pink ski masks, machine-guns, bikinis; crackpot scenes of militaristic prepping, with Franco a drug-frazzled Patton....
...Neither Francisco Franco, the late dictator, nor the current King Juan Carlos can be accused of being overly generous with dukedoms or marquisates, and not everyone advertises them....
...Apricot-yellow Gloire de Dijon is visible, as are double alba roses and even the single red Duke of Wellington....
...Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson, both glammed up to the nines, are superb as the women on the wrong end of his soul and fist....
...Giménez points out that political isolation until Franco’s fall a quarter of a century ago kept Spain in a sort of cultural bubble....
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