Hints and tips:
...Both Halfords and Currys, reporting on Wednesday and Thursday respectively, sell big-ticket items, typically shunned by shoppers in an economic squeeze....
...Try the classic pad Thai noodles, yam moo yang (grilled marinated pork) or gaeng pha talay (jungle curry). A second venue has opened on Lothian Road....
...His approach is not to curry favour, but to put his house in order....
...The Sutherland household became famous for its liberal gatherings and in 1848 Frédéric Chopin played in the presence of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert....
...You can hear major orchestras serenade Sonic the Hedgehog and Crash Bandicoot at the Hollywood Bowl and Royal Albert Hall, or catch the relentlessly touring Video Games Live concert....
...Scott was certainly keen to curry royal favour. But he had other reasons to look to the Highlands for symbols of Scotland....
...Her dream guest list includes Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Jean Cocteau – and Benito Mussolini....
...I am pretty sure that after Albert died she turned vegetarian.” “No! With grief?” “Who’s to say?” … I went back into the film....
...Tuna, marlin and seabass fill the freezers and the shelves are stacked with all kinds of noodles, coconut sauces and curry paste....
...David Gilbert is executive chair of Culturelabel.com and a former managing director of Currys, the electronics retailer. He believes the sector has not tapped its online potential....
...Inexpensive Thai food can now be enjoyed in pubs with traditional names such as the Queen’s Head in Chesham, Buckinghamshire; the Prince Albert in Twickenham; the Castle in Ealing; Latymers in Hammersmith...
...The Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise, tel: +1 312-922 3432, www.architecture.org Showcase kitchen The Victoria and Albert Museum in London already has extensive ranges of furniture and accessories...
...Imagine my shock, nearly 10 years later, to be working at that temple of excellence, Le Gavroche, and discovering that the great Albert Roux used curry powder in his escalopes de veau à l’ananas....
...I took this to be a bit of kitchen banter from Albert, the head chef at David Thompson’s Michelin-starred Thai restaurant in London, but the recipe for the curry paste has seven dried red chillies and plenty...
...We would always eat mince pies at tea time and then my father would get to work on a curry using any leftover chicken, for supper. He would love preparing a French-style creamed curry....
...It buries some of the best material, such as Lord Bilimoria’s yarns about delivering the first consignments of Cobra around London in a clapped-out 2CV called Albert....
...Begins cooking, mostly curries. 1971 On being thrown out of university, embarks on a series of failed careers, including farming, journalism and novel writing....
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