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...We love Japanese food and Engawa, which is part of Ham Yard Village and opposite our Ham Yard Hotel in Soho, is traditional and authentic....
...Don’t leave without trying the presunto (dry-cured ham) from Barrancos....
...Highlight: The enchanting Art Deco Twickenham Bridge by Maxwell Ayrton and Alfred Dryland (1933) was the first major three-hinged, concrete-arched bridge in the UK....
...You can do the same with San Daniele ham, prosciutto or Parma ham, which added any earlier would turn brittle....
...Then we go to Brindisa for the Bellota Ibérico ham – one of my favourite foods; I eat tons of the stuff – and their sweet pickled chillies and Spanish olives....
...Born in Michigan in 1908, she moved to France with her first husband, Alfred Fisher, just as the Great Depression began....
...Georgina Adam is art market editor-at-large of The Art Newspaper Photographs: Christie’s; Van Ham...
...One review in the New York Times described it as a “ham-handed fairy tale” reminiscent of The Lord of the Rings and George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones, while on the other side of the genre divide the novelist...
...Neal’s Yard Dairy knows not only its cheese, but its cheesemakers too....
...Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson, Borough Press, RRP£20 / William Morrow, RRP$35 Stephenson’s dense, detailed epic shows humankind struggling to save what it can of itself against a ticking-clock doomsday...
...“The overseas market has changed the DNA of American movies,” says film historian Neal Gabler. “The bigger-faster-louder aesthetic is very deeply embedded in the Americans psyche....
...They had met during her visit for the Cannes Film Festival a year earlier and she had also filmed Alfred Hitchcock’s romantic thriller To Catch a Thief there. My family came to Monaco by chance....
...Sharing his space is the Ham & Cheese company, with its exquisite parma ham, Basque sausages and fresh mozzarella; and the Kernel Brewery, which makes artisanal beers....
...The ballet abounds in this sort of wry and subtle wit, which the dancers diminish when they ham things up, as Daniel Ulbricht does with Puck and Henry Seth is beginning to do – after years of letting the...
...Randolph Hodgson of cheese specialist Neal’s Yard Dairy, which has a shop in Borough, played a crucial part in setting up the food market there....
...Spanish importer Brindisa sells its high-quality hams in a complete set, including a whole ham (at least 7.5kg), stand, carving knife, plus instructions (from £155-£895 depending on the ham)....
...Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonhams and MacDougall’s sold a total of £41m of Russian art – but the estimate had been £75m-£95m. Collectors and dealers blamed the dip on exorbitant estimates....
...If Cristofer makes a solid, moody centre for the drama, it is Neal Huff’s shot-from-guns Huxley who enlivens the proceedings....
...Among the other sources of exceptional edibles are Devon Wild Beef, black foot ham at Brindisa’s deli or its corner tapas bar....
...He’s a “bona fide foodie” – his signature dish is salmon en croute with asparagus purée and a layer of Parma ham. “It knocks people’s socks off without too much effort....
...Mrs Boyle compares her first few months in charge of Columbia to Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds....
...Something to do ■Gift token for a tutored cheese tasting event at Neal’s Yard Dairy or a one-day champagne tasting course at Berry Bros & Rudd....
...He is a radio ham and his hobbies are flying and diving....
...WHY ALFRED BURNED THE CAKES: 1,100 Years of Myth and History by David Horspool Profile ₤15.99, 256 pages Another schoolroom story given the full treatment, restoring Alfred’s claim to the title “great”...
...Launny’s latest John “Launny” Steffens, who rose to be brokerage chief at Merrill Lynch then quit after 38 years at the firm when he was replaced by Stanley O’Neal, always had a reputation for innovation...
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